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BookFest will be held later this year as a in-person event.

Leak Each word in Leak, Kate Hargreaves’s debut collection of poetry, is deliberate, carefully chosen to test the boundaries of the English language. In Leak, nouns become verbs, verbs become nouns, words shift meaning, and prose flows loosely, free of punctuation. These aren’t the mistakes of a sloppy writer or a novice editor. Rather, they are part of Hargreaves’s careful exploration of the relationship between language and the body. Unlike the bodies plastered on billboards and in fa...