Igor Brezhnev is a poet. In 2019 they have also founded Lightship Press, a small press dedicated to producing poetry books. They also produce and host a weekly poetry event Wordlights in Portland, Oregon. Their work centers around themes of houselessness, belonging, mental health, small and large things in the emotional landscape of our time. Once in a while they add a healthy dollop of nonsense to otherwise stark subjects. They believe that through sharing our stories we learn not only to connect with our own unvoiced emotions, but to empathize with emotions of others, and ultimately make the changes that make lives better. They have authored three books so far: ‘the book of possibilities’ (2012), ‘dearest void’ (2016) and ‘america is a dry cookie and other love stories’ (2018). In December of 2018 they have recorded a full length poetry album titled ‘Good Days & Bad Days’ at Shady Pines Studio, which you can listen to at igorbrezhnev.bandcamp.com. Most recently, they have completed a year long project titled ‘nights since’ which documented the experience and emotional landscape of being houseless. Every night since January 18th of 2019 they have written a poem, with the final poem written on January 14th of 2020. The first 66 poems came out as two limited edition chapbooks ‘nights since volume one’ & ‘nights since volume two’. There are 11 volumes in total in this project, and hopefully with your support over the next year they’ll be able to publish the rest of the volumes.
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