🎧 Knock, knock, knock! Is this thing on? 🎙️✨📚

Sometimes getting me to leave my house is like pulling teeth. I want to do things—go to the beach, to a show, to dinner. But the lure of a comfortable couch and a good drink (a negroni sbagliata with prosecco in it, for example) is hard to resist. If you’re like me and wish you could enjoy a poetry reading without having to go to a poetry reading, then, my friend, I am here to give you a gift: Poetry in audiobook format. Here’s our line-up, with more on the way:

Survivor’s Notebook: Poems
Acre Books, September 2023

This powerful companion to 2021’s Our Cancers catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has recently survived her own cancer, as he returns to his daily life while raising a young daughter. This prose-poem sequence is truly a survivor’s notebook, using photos and the tools of memoir to evoke the ways in which disaster can constellate our past, present, and future.

Dual: Poems
Acre Books, October 2023

In his fourth poetry collection, Matthew Minicucci examines masculinity and gun violence as he brings to life the grammatical concept of the dual, a number that is neither singular nor plural, now lost in English but present in other languages both extant and ancient.