Book Launch: Reprise by Golden

Reviews for Reprise:

"Reprise, as the title may suggest, is a miraculous and immense book of returns and reinventions. The beauty of Golden's work is the close attention paid to ideas, to objects, to people and place, a close attention that makes the poems as limitless as the subjects. This book is an act of rage, of affection, of innovation. An achievement.”
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year

“Reprise is an unflinching work that fills us with commentary on a replay of history, past and present, and allows us to imagine a future of possibilities. I admire Golden’s experimentation with language, storytelling and imaging-making.”
—Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty in African American Culture

About the Poets:

Golden (they/them) is a Black gender-nonconforming photographer, author, & educator raised in Hampton, VA (Kikotan land), currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts (Massachusett people & Wampanoag land). They are the author of A Dead Name That Learned How to Live (Game Over Books 2022), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry (Game Over Books 2023), and Reprise (Haymarket Books 2025). Their photographic series On Learning How to Live, an Arnold Newman Prize Finalist (2021), documents Black trans life at the intersections of surviving & living in the United States.

Golden is the recipient of a Pink Door Fellowship (2017/2019), an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Luminaries Fellowship (2019), the Frontier Award for New Poets (2019), a Best of the Net Award (2020), a City of Boston Artist- in-Residence (2020-2021), a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship in Photography (2021), a Women Photograph Project Grant (2021), a Collective Futures Fund Grant (2022), an Aperture/Google Creator Labs Photo Fund Grant (2023), the Queer|Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists (2023), and a MacDowell Fellowship (2025). They hold a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University.

Their published & collaborative work can be found on/in The Yale Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vogue, Muzzle Magazine, Split this Rock, Women Photograph, MFA Boston, Button Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Instagram (@goldenthem_), or through their website goldengoldengolden.com.

Imani Davis is a queer, Black, & neurodivergent writer who grew up splitting time between Brooklyn & Long Island. A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, The Mellon Foundation, Lambda Literary, StoryStudio Chicago, and the Stadler Center for Poetry, they’re currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Harvard, where they also earned their M.A. in English. Imani’s poetry appears with The Academy of American Poets, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, PBS News Hour’s Brief But Spectacular Series, The Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica, The Harvard Gazette, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Shade Literary Arts, The Offing, Brooklyn Poets, Poetry Daily, Frontier Poetry, Honey Literary, TEDx, ROOKIE Magazine, Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Notably, they have performed at the Teen Vogue Activism Summit, the Apollo Theater, Brave New Voices, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kelly Writers House, and the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Aurielle Marie (they/she) is a Black and Queer poet, essayist, and cultural curator surviving state violence. They are the author of Gumbo Ya Ya (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021) and the 2020 Cave Canem poetry prize winner. Aurielle won the 2021 Furious Flower Poetry Prize, was the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year in poetry, and received the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. For their work in literature, Aurielle was named a member of Out Magazine’s 2022 Out100 class and was featured on Good Morning America. In 2023, she was honored as a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. She was a 2022 Movement Journalism Fellow with Scalawag Magazine, a 2019 Lambda Literary Writer in Residence, and has received invitations to fellowships from Tin House, VONA, The Watering Hole, and Kopkind. Their work has been featured in American Poetry Review, the Poem-a-Day series, Poetry Magazine, on The Slowdown, Teen Vogue, and The Guardian, among other platforms. A genderqueer filmmaker and storyteller, Aurielle writes about sex, systems, and The South from a Black Feminist lens.

Zenaida Peterson is the author of their first full length book of poetry, Sky Responds to Our Holler. They are a Black southern Quaker mystic and a parent of 5 species of living in a queer coop in Boston. Zenaida is the founding director of Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS). They have been on or coached 7 competing teams at national poetry slam competitions; placing in the top 10 each time including Rustbelt’s winning team in 2015. They were accepted into Pinkdoor, Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Incubator and CantoMundo writing retreats. You can find their work at Game Over Books, Pizza Pi Press, Button Poetry, Slam Find and Wusgood Black.