Artist’s Statement:

Year of Signs is a chapbook about looking from the outside in. Each poem takes its title from a store awning either in New York or Houston, and they investigate experiences of grief, wandering, and serendipity: surprises of love and feeling in a time of loss. The poems lean heavily on other poets for company (Mayer, Merwin, Doty, Baudelaire), in addition to the everyday language of shopfronts, overheard speech, and physical gestures.

Author Bio:

Morgan Levine is a multimedia poet from Houston, Texas, studying English and Creative Writing at Columbia University. Their work has been featured in Quarto, 4×4, The Blue & White, Gigantic Sequins and elsewhere. Morgan currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Review.