Anni Liu’s (Incoming Writing Fellow 2022) poetry collection, Border Vista, recipient of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize from Persea Books, comes out on April 12, 2022. The Lexi Rudnitsky Prize is awarded annually to a first poetry collection by a female-identified poet in honor of a poet-activist.
The poems in Border Vista span Liu’s early childhood in Xi’an, migrate with her to the Great Black Swamp of Ohio, and follow her all the way to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, to the border with Canada, and to the edge of nationhood and embodiment. Along the way readers will encounter English lessons, eye trees, a bird burial, a lake named Shadow, demolished landscapes, and the uses of misremembering. Purchase a copy of Border Vista (linked here is a beloved bookstore in Minneapolis, where the author lives).
Liu is planning a hybrid book launch with St. Paul’s East Side Freedom Library in late April or early May; keep an eye on her website for forthcoming details. In the meantime, see Anni Liu at the following AWP events this weekend:
Thursday, March 24
Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence: Reshaping Our Narratives & Communities
121A, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level 10:35 am to 11:50 am
Friday, March 25
Book Signing
Persea Books Table, Book Fair 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Offsite Reading Hosted by Persea and Alice James
Time Restaurant, 1315 Sansom St 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 26
Call It a Beginning: An Undocupoets Anniversary Reading
Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level 3:20 pm to 4:35 pm