Jami Macarty is the author of The Minuses, winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-Poetry Arizona, and four chapbooks, including The Whole Catastrophe and Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Macarty's writing is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council, and the generous editors of such American and Canadian literary magazines as Colorado Review, Interim, Vallum, and Volt. Macarty supports other writers as an independent mentor, editor, and reviewer, and as a creative writing teacher at Simon Fraser University. Macarty lives in and learns from the arborescent desert around Tucson, Arizona, and the rain coast of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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"Jami Macarty's spectacular The Long Now Conditions Permit reveals a complex geography of gendered histories and unveiled violences through history and nature. Her poems are rendered in conditions where power circulates as moving, internal portraits and through Steinian-like modes of repetition where description begs the juridical, form weds content in Macarty's deft sonic registers." - Ronaldo V. Wilson, Test Site Poetry Advisory Board, author of Virgil Kills: Stories and Poems of the Black Object "Venturing farther along trajectories first aumbrated by Laura Riding and Barbara Guest, The Long Conditions Now Permit recalls language to its original mysteries and to its luminary status among the lights and highlights of real phenomena. In these poems, reverence and discovery enact a beautiful partnership. The results are revelatory." - Donald Revell, professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, author of The English Boat