The Annual Sanger-Stewart Reading

Spree MacDonald, 2016 Chapbook Competition Winner, reads from his award winning chapbook, Milksop Codicil (SHP 2017).
“Into the ‘headwaters of hurt’ is where Spree MacDonald takes us, between branches that overhang and roots that trip, with a jambalaya of words and references that in the end prove the only way out of here. This writer uses his own weaknesses, his ‘blunder toe,’ to navigate a treacherous landscape, bringing the whole country to bear witness to the swamp living in its belly. At play with sound and music, he charges into this ‘labor hood of Atlantis,’ this ‘poorly lit paradise.’—Mervyn Taylor