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David Giannini’s most recent books include The Dawn of Nothing Important, The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up, and In a Moment We May Be Strangely Blended. He was nominated for a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He received a 2021 Finalist Award from The North American Poetry Review.
Moira Linehan is the author of four collections of poetry. Her first collection If No Moon (2007) had been selected by Dorianne Laux as winner of the 2006 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry open competition. Her first three collections take on the loss of her husband, a diagnosis of breast cancer, and offer meditations on her two signature landscapes: the pond behind her home of almost forty years in Winchester, Massachusetts and the far reaches of Ireland.
Linehan's fourth collection, & Company, moves into a new setting, subject, and style. In a search to know her maternal grandmother, Linehan turns to the documentation painters left of the fashion worlds in Paris and Boston in which her grandmother worked as a dress designer and seamstress. Those paintings let her imagine her grandmother in the heart of those worlds. At times as background, at times as foreground, they are the source of many of the narrative and ekphrastic poems in this collection. Among those poems are also elegies for her own mother.