Darius Atefat-Peckham Featured in Poets & Writers

We’re thrilled to see Darius Atefat-Peckham included in the Poets & Writers‘ feature “The Luminous Life: Our Twentieth Annual Look at Debut Poets.” In the article, Darius reflects on the process of writing and publishing his debut collection,

Book of Kin began as an attempt to commune with my late mother and brother in a poetic space, to understand and complicate what it means to be a ‘survivor’ of tragedy, to catalogue the experience of grief and how it informs my coming of age. As I constructed a language for my grief in the writing of this book, it became apparent that I was really constructing a portal to the way I love and am loved, the love that grief is and can be, the hope and abundance implicit in the acts of remembrance, reconstitution, and continuance of voice—or, the act of writing poetry.

To read the full piece, visit the Poets & Writers‘ website, or pick up a copy of their newest issue!