Charlotte Readers Podcast

Charlotte Readers Podcast


Poet Gail Peck Brings the Dust Bowl Photographs of Dorothea Lange to Life in “An Instant Out of Time” [Ep 144] [S7-04]

September 29, 2020

In today’s episode, we visit with the 2020 winner of the Irene Blair Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Arts and the author of “An Instant Out of Time,” “Within Two Rooms,” and other poetry collections.

Joseph Bathanti, former North Carolina Poet Laureate says this about Gail’s new book:
“I’ve admired Gail Peck’s poems for thirty years—their precision and sensibility, gorgeous imagery, and taut, chiseled language that echoes long after the final syllable. All these hallmarks are exponentially evident in Pecks’ extraordinary new volume, An Instant Out of Time. These new poems beautifully contemplate and amplify the Dust Bowl photographs of legendary photographer Dorothea Lange. While An Instant Out of Time is a primer on how to write breathtaking ekphrastic poems, it is also a celebration of two artists—Lange and Peck—in a seamless collaboration of their respective arts that is heartbreakingly unforgettable.”

Gail’s first reading is “Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas” from her book “An Instant Out of Time.”

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