Please join us in welcoming back
 Taylor Byas
 to celebrate her new poetry collection 
Resting Bitch Face
. Joining her for this reading and conversation is poet
 Jameka Williams
.
Please note: Masks are required for our in-person events.
 
This event is free to attend, but registration is recommended.
An Audacious Book Club Pick
The author of the award-winning national bestseller 
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
 returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from object, artistic muse, and victim to subject, critic, and master of her story.
Resting Bitch Face
 
is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and film criticism, and for writers interested in work that finds a middle ground between poetry and prose. Taylor Byas uses some of our most common ways of “watching” throughout history (painting, films, sculpture, and photographs) to explore how these mediums shape Black female subjectivity.
From the examination of artwork by Picasso, Gauguin, Sally Mann, and Nan Goldin, Byas displays her mastery of the poetic form by engaging in intimate and inventive writing. Fluctuating between watcher and watched, the speaker of these poems uses mirrors and reflections to flip the script and talk back to histories of art, text, photography, relationships, and men. From Polaroids to gesso primer to sculpture, Byas creates a world in which the artist calls out and the muse responds. For not only does she enter the world of the long-revered classic artist, but she also infuses her poems with such iconic pop culture works as 
The Joker
, 
WandaVision
, and 
Last Tango in Paris
.
Taylor Byas
 is an award-winning poet and a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her poetry collection 
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
 
won the Maya Angelou Book Award, the Ohioana Book Award, the CHIRBy Award, and the BCALA Best Poetry Honor.
Jameka Williams
 holds a MFA in poetry from Northwestern University. Her poetry has been published in 
Prelude Magazine, Gulf Coast, Gigantic Sequins, Muzzle Magazine, Yemassee Journal, Tupelo Quarterly
, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, 
American Sex Tape™
, her first collection, was the University of Wisconsin Press selection for the 2022 Brittingham Prize winner. She resides in Chicago, IL with her partner, daughter, and her cat, Jack.
Accessibility:
 This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email 
events@womenandchildrenfirst.com
 by no later than 14 days before the event. For other questions or access needs, please email 
events@womenandchildrenfirst.com
.
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