Poet-in-residence Stacy Gnall was a speaker at the 2023 Lit Youngstown Festival this October as part of the panel “Poetry of Witness” with poets Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Jessica Cuello and Jennifer Martelli. Gnall read new poems from her third book project, The Danger Constellation, which combines poetry with moments of lyric essay to interrogate the cultural and philosophical history of women’s costume. These poems think through clothing’s gendered relationships to notions of vanity and shame, conformity and rebellion, decoration and escape.
This summer, Gnall was also on a mini-book tour with fiction writer Casey Bell that included stops in Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit.
Gnall also recently joined the editorial board of Alice James Books.