Book Launch: "STAGES" with Tramaine Suubi.

"Tramaine Suubi’s newest book, Stages, crafts new orbits to the oldest questions. As the poems circumnavigate homecomings, desires, and reclamations, the relay baton of sound and syntax passes seamlessly, always ready to hand the reader a line of true substance, a line of unexpected grace, a line of hard-won delight. Suubi insists on playfulness as a site of maturation and love as a protest against multiple erasures. And like celestial bodies, these poems can transfix, predict, and guide one through both dying and newborn light, reminding the reader, “civility is a performance you savage in your dreams.”  — Steven Leyva, author of The Opposite of Cruelty

About the Author:

Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of phases and stages. She has also published creative writing in over fifteen literary anthologies, journals, magazines, and reviews. Tramaine works towards the total liberation of all oppressed people by…