Erika Meitner’s Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection Assembled Audience

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Erika Meitner’s poetry collection Assembled Audience lyrically distills our current troubled world to reveal its wonders and joy. Camille T. Dungy wrote of the book: “Assembled Audience is a tour d’force to treasure. With sharp attention and bright wit, Erika Meitner’s poems gather the good, the bad, and the ugly of our present day and refine what’s assembled into pure and splendid glory. I love this book.” In her own words, here is Erika Meitner’s Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection Assembled Audience: 1. Come Together – Daphne Willis Assembled Audience is a book I wrote over four years from 2019 to 2024, about the ways people gather together: in celebration and in…