This month poet, essayist, novelist and Department of English and Humanities Associate Professor B.W. Powe released his latest book, Ladders Made of Water.
Powe’s new work is a collection featuring poems, mini-essays, stories, parables, meditations on contemporary cinema and unfinished rock opera lyrics. Blending essaying and poetry, Powe sayswas writing in an impressionistic, poetic, analogical, free associative approach to open up a dialogue with readers around the subjects the book considers – spiritual crises, the Russia-Ukraine War, the pandemic, environmental collapse and what he calls the implosion of our media systems. “It’s a thoughtful work that’s reflecting on the turbulence that we’re experiencing right now,” Powe says.
The new work is notable too for being the first project published by Stream Elsewhere Press, a venture the associate professor founded in collaboration withElliott Sheppard, a former 91ɫ student of Powe’s, in order to explore the possibilities of self-publishing. “It’s a new way to get my material out there, bypassing conventional publishing houses, who often take years to edit and produce a book,” says Powe.
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