This video poem by Gillian Conoley features the author reading from her A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected (Nightboat Books). Premiered as digital short in Houston Reel Poetry Film Festival 2022. Voiceover and camerawork done on phone camera by Gillian. Edited and produced at the World Famous Palm Avenue Studios. Copyright Gillian Conoley.

from the book: A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems by Gillian Conoley

Publishers Weekly on A LITTLE MORE RED SUN ON THE HUMAN: New and Selected Poems by Gillian Conoley

Over the course of her career, Conoley’s style has developed from lyric poems recounting a Texas girlhood, to fragmented sequences that play with language and perspective, to roving, cinematic poems that address history, art, biography, and language. Winner of the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award, Conoley makes this transformation visible in these selections, which the poet has organized into sequential, thematic sections independent of her seven collections, introducing unfamiliar readers to her aesthetic preoccupations and concerns.