David Brazil is a poet, pastor, and translator. His third book of poetry, Holy Ghost (City Lights, 2017), was nominated for a California Book Award. He is the editor of Wave Books’s edition of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital. With Kevin Killian, he co-edited The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater, 1945-1985. With Chika Okoye, he was the founding curator of the Berkeley Art Museum’s Black Life series, focusing on cultural production in the African diaspora. He has presented his work at Cambridge University, Johns Hopkins, and San Francisco State University, among other venues. He lives in New Orleans.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
I Burn in the Memory of Love: On “Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners”
David Brazil considers “Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners,”edited by Michael Seth Stewart....
Under the Language: A Conversation with Pierre Joris on Paul Celan
David Brazil interviews Pierre Joris about his new collection of Paul Celan writings, “Memory Rose into Threshold Speech.”...
