Book Launch Celebration and Author Talk: Dear Charis: Poems by Sarah Grieve and Dominika Wrozynski

About Dear Charis:

Dear Charis: is a collaborative epistolary chapbook–written by poets Sarah Grieve and Dominika Wrozynski—that explores the creative relationship between writer Charis Wilson and photographer Edward Weston, who in 1937 took a Guggenheim trip around the American West, chronicling their experiences in words and images. Grieve and Wrozynski highlight Wilson and Weston’s contemporary relevance, and showcase Wilson as a writer, though she has long been sidelined by history as merely Weston’s muse and lover. Poems idle through the California Coast en route to the Mojave desert all the while finding dead bodies, date milkshakes, basement archives, and the tender resurrection of a female writer who pioneered American travel writing and whose words continue to reverberate in our present moment.

About the authors

Dominika Wrozynski is the Program Director of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and author of American Accent, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing/Poetry from Florida State University. For 22 years, she has taught creative writing and literature. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Five Points, Nimrod, Birmingham Poetry Review, New Madrid, and many others. She lives in Patterson, New York.

Sarah Grieve’s first poetry collection Winged was published by Finishing Line Press in 2017 and her chapbook Honey My Tongue was published by Palooka Press in 2014. She earned a PhD in American Literature from Arizona State University. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Waxwing, Cimarron Review, Bayou, Missouri Review Online, and others. She teaches at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, CA.