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(MFA 鈥�20) released his debut book – Motion Flesh this summer. Motion Flesh, a collection of poetry and flash fiction was published by . Eric鈥檚 new work had a celebratory release party at Common Area Maintenance in Seattle.

Several 糖心vlog视频 MFA community members were in attendance – MFA Faculty Jeanne Heuving, Amy Hirayama (MFA 鈥�20), Sky O鈥橞rien (MFA 鈥�20), Emily Mundy (MFA 鈥�20) (host of the poetry seance), Harry Lee (MFA 鈥�20), Ashley Skartvedt (MFA 鈥�20), Reed Lowell (MFA 鈥�19), Woogee Bae (MFA 鈥�19), Simon Wolf (MFA 鈥�21), Emma McVeigh (MFA鈥�23) and Noor Alnaaz (MFA 鈥�24). Additionally, Greg Bem, a local poet and Ensemble Unnamable music group performed on the night.

In Eric鈥檚 words, 鈥淢otion Flesh is a collection of writing I’ve done over the last two years. It’s all writing I did after my thesis, and also the first collection I’ve ever worked on sober鈥� Motion Flesh represents a journey of recovery. I was in therapy. I wasn鈥檛 drinking. The first time I鈥檝e created sober in over ten years. At the time, what I was most proud of with my thesis Virgo was that I had managed to take the “I” out of every poem. With Motion Flesh I learned to put the 鈥淚鈥� back in. I was finally communicating with my whole self. I was learning to be vulnerable. And what I find very special about Motion Flesh, is that through no attention to thematic direction, all the poems deal with a self finding self, or a self learning that there is more self, or of a self blossoming into awareness of new self. The release event was more than I could’ve ever hoped for. I feel really lucky. My journey through recovery is why the release party was so special. I could feel everyone鈥檚 support in the room. And the support wasn鈥檛 only for me. My performance series Unpoetry has brought a lot of artists into the same spaces, and you could feel there was a connection between everyone there. This was our community.

Eric Acosta has been immensely involved in Seattle鈥檚 creative community including organizing his twice monthly reading series 鈥榰npoetry鈥�, amongst other community collaborations, and performances.