Read and analyze Natalie Shapero's 2025 poetry collection, Stay Dead. Please bring your copy to the discussion! The group will be doing close reading and analysis of the poems. Synopsis: Shapero's unflinching poems explore theories of acting, discourses of survival, privacy and publicity, power and punchlines, and the language of despair. This work explores how "your death place / is the birthplace you choose." With appearances by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Chris Burden, Studs Terkel, Anthony Bourdain, Gene Kelly, and others, Shapero investigates themes of method acting, abstract expressionism, and the production and commodification of intense expression and raw interiority.
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