Jacqueline Jones LaMon praises Brim's "Icarus is Love"

Antoinette Brim’s, Icarus in Love, is a stellar collection full of the mythology of living. Utilizing vibrant, recurring images that braid their way through our hearts and memories, Brim raises hard questions of survival and offers hope to us all. With poems in conversation with the work of Neruda, Plath, Bishop and others, Brim skillfully employs the use of poetic form to confront the teetering circumstances of life. An important collection from a poet on the rise!

Jacqueline Jones LaMon 

Author of LAST SEEN and GRAVITY, U.S.A. 

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Brim reads poem from "Icarus in Love"

Antoinette Brim reads What is reflected in the koi pond in early evening from her collection Icarus in Love forthcoming from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in January 2013.

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Kwame Dawes praises "Icarus in Love" ...

“…this female brain is always keeping time…” In this love song, Icarus in Love, each word is packed with weight and consideration—such that when the poet speaks of keeping time, the keeping is the collecting, the cherishing, the reflecting, the shaping, and the adoration of time, of memory, of the future, of tradition, of art. Antoinette Brim enters emotions with optimism and hope of enlightenment, and often she achieves such in these poems. Yes, “…this female brain is always measuring…” the substance and nature of love.

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"Autumn Aubade" from "Icarus in Love"

Antoinette Brim reads Autumn Aubade from her collection Icarus in Love forthcoming from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in January 2013.  To order Icarus in Love at the discounted price of $8.50 reserved for advance orders, go to Main Street Rag Publishing Company's "Coming Soon" page. Scroll down the page to find the Icarus in Love link.

"Icarus in Love" coming in January 2013!

Antoinette Brim's second collection of poetry, Icarus in Love, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in January 2013.  Order it now and receive the discounted price of $8.50 reserved for advance orders.  Click here to go Main Street Rag Publishing Company's "Coming Soon" page.  Scroll down the page to find the Icarus in Love link.

Brim is theblackbottom Tuesday Poet

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Antoinette Brim to read during the "Speaking for Others: Poetry on Social Justice" event at the Riverwood Poetry Festival

The "Speaking for Others: Poetry on Social Justice" event at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, 77 Forest St., Hartford from 2 to 4 p.m. "Speaking For Others" will feature four poets: Ralph Nazareth, Doug Anderson, Randall Horton and Antoinette Brim.  Click here to read the Hartford Courant article.