PRIMER

by DAN BEACHY-QUICK + KYLAN RICE

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator. Forthcoming work includes translations of pre-Socratic philosophy and Sappho’s poems, as well as chapbook of poem, Cantos, The Song Cave will bring out. Previous work has been long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, and his work has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Colorado State University where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.

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Kylan Rice is the author of An Image Not a Book (2023), a collection of poetry, and Incryptions (2021), a collection of lyric essays.

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REVIEWS

“I wouldn’t want to conclude this review without also briefly highlighting the importance of accessibility in Beachy-Quick and Rice’s Primer. Free Poetry Press provides its chapbooks and books on poetics free of charge and without copyright, encouraging readers to download and circulate their works as they see fit. This method of dissemination in our age of late-stage capitalism is as refreshing as Primer; that is, poetry’s connection to the greater world as illustrated in Primer is directly embodied in how Free Poetry Press makes this text available to its readership.”

- Jessica Cory for Annulet