à genoux

by Morgan Christie

à genoux tells of kneeling - the delicate threshold between the reader and the act - in poems that pivot, with unsettling honesty, between history memory and family.

The second in our series of Poet & artist chapbooks sees Morgan Christie's graceful and compelling poetic response to Virginia Chihota's soulful and candid artworks.

43 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Morgan Christie's work has appeared in Callaloo, Obsidian, Prism International, Room, Hawai'i Review, Sports Literate, and other journals. She is the author of a full-length short story collection 'These Bodies', which was nominated for the Hurston Wright Legacy Award in fiction, and four poetry chapbooks. She is the winner of the 2022 Arc Poetry Poem of the Year Award, the 2022 Digging Chapbook Series Prize (Jan 2024), and the 2023 Howling Bird Press Book Award (Nov 2023). Her picture books 'I, Too, Am Here' (Second Story Press, 2024) and 'Counting Cho Cho' (Groundwood Books, 2026) are forthcoming. Morgan's work has been featured in such outlets as Buzzfeed, NBC News, Poets&Writers, LA Weekly, The London Post, Yahoo News, NY Weekly, Broadway World, the National Poetry Day exhibit, and others.

Reviews

[Shon Holmes · Rating 5 out of 5]

A poetic testament to the act of kneeling. As a child, in prayer, and in protest. These were very personal and socially responsive poems that intertwined how at different points in our life we can understand the same action in a very different way. A unique and thoughtful interpretation of how we, and the world around us, develops.