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Join Button Poetry at Icehouse on June 18 to celebrate the release of Sierra DeMulder’s fifth poetry collection, EPHEMERA, with special guest DJ, Big Cats!

If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments, there would be nothing to immortalize in writing.

In Sierra DeMulder’s melancholic yet beautifully hopeful poetry collection, Ephemera, she writes with the wisdom of someone who has learned to love and lose. Each poem reads delicately and elegantly, just fleeting memories on the page. Split into 4 sections detailing intimate experiences from the painful deaths of family members who clung to life, to passionate love she feels for her own mortal wife, DeMulder plays a sweet song by pulling on her own well worn heart strings.

While maintaining a muted emotional intensity, the poems keep their grounding in reality, never straying to superfluous territory, perhaps recognizing their own ephemeral quality. DeMulder ruminates on what will come and what will fade. Despite this impermanent nature, you can feel the tender warmth DeMulder holds for her family in every line, even the moments she wishes she could forget.

Sierra DeMulder is the author of five collections of poetry (Ephemera, The Bones Below, New Shoes on a Dead Horse, We Slept Here, Today Means Amen) and the co-host of the relationship advice podcast Just Break Up. She lives in Albany, NY with her wife and daughter.

Spencer Wirth-Davis (Big Cats) is a producer and composer from Minneapolis. He has worked with Lizzo, Mac Miller, BJ The Chicago Kid, Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre, Sage Francis, Eric Mayson, and Chance York. He has also released three solo albums and performed throughout the country. He has written music for Nike, NBC, CNN, Johnson & Johnson, Activision, the Golden State Warriors, PBS, and General Mills. He has also scored feature films, shorts, and podcasts.