Upcoming Events
November 2024
“THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE OF FLORIDA: A POETRY READING” – PANEL
In All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins, ARIEL FRANCISCO mourns a Miami already ruined by climate change and development, and weaves an elegy to a city in existential limbo. JEN KARETNICK’s Inheritance with a High Error Rate considers how the Floridian landscape itself is both mind and body, bearing witness to catastrophe, endurance, and the many ways we nourish hope like a habit. The Winter Dance Party: Poems, 1983-2023 spans DAVID KIRBY’s career,…
MARIE HOWE ON NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
MARIE HOWE’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. New and Selected Poems is an essential volume that draws from each of her four previous collections – including What the Living Do, a haunting archive of personal loss, and the National Book Award-longlistedMagdalene, a spiritual and sensual exploration of contemporary womanhood – and contains 20 new poems. Whether speaking in the voice of the goddess Persephone or musing on aging, Howe is “a light-bearer,…
CELEBRATING THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEES FOR POETRY
The National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards recognizes some of the most outstanding poetry collections published in the U.S. each year. Join us for a special discussion featuring this year’s nominees. Moderated by RUTH DICKEY, executive director of the National Book Foundation.…
KWAME ALEXANDER ON THIS IS THE HONEY & WHY FATHERS CRY AT NIGHT – NONFICTION
Join KWAME ALEXANDER – poet, educator, publisher, Emmy Award-winning producer, and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of 40 books – as he reads from and discusses his two most recent projects. This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets is a breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances is an intimate and nontraditional (or “new-fashioned”) memoir featuring poetry,…
MENDING THE RIFT: A POETICS OF HEALING
JENNIFER MARITZA MCCAULEY’s Kinds of Grace: Poems explores the complicated facets of Blackness and Afro-Latinidad, mental health issues, womanhood, and the power of healing racial wounds. The Blue Mimes: Poems by SARA DANIELE RIVERA investigates catastrophic grief – from the pandemic to the present, from Albuquerque to Lima to Havana, between the rifts in communion that afford the possibility to heal. EMILY JUNGMIN YOON’s Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animals,…
THE POEM WITHIN THE POEM: A BILINGUAL READING
Venezuelan poet NIDIA HERNÁNDEZ bridges the gulf between her two countries in The Farewell Light,leaping effortlessly between the natural world and meditations on culture, family, language, and longing. Translator-poet FARID MATUK presents The Hormone of Darkness, curated from Peruvian poet and multimedia artist Tilsa Otta’s body of work – in which a queer Latinx person who has lived through iterations of authoritarian rule answers these conditions by doubling down on a life force that precedes and exceeds notions of the poetic.…
THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF POETRY
Join the Academy of American Poets for a 90th anniversary reading and conversation featuring JOY CASTRO and CARLIE HOFFMAN, highlighting questions of national identity, migration, displacement, and belonging. Castro offers readers an intimate glimpse into the history of early 20th-century Cuban émigré society in Key West through Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West, a bilingual edition of Feliciano Castro’s poetry. Hoffman’s When There Was Light maps out a topography across Eastern Europe and America where global movements of diaspora and war live alongside personal reckonings,…
SELFHOOD, SPACE & THE DEEP COMPASSION OF POETRY
The poems in Bound by JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY seek to carve a space in the world for Blackness and queerness that isn’t defined by trauma or lack, where Black and queer folks can create and conjure the worlds they want to live and love in. In Mammal: Sacrifice Is Not a Virtue, ANA MARÍA CABALLERO examines how one’s desire to view the self as in control opposes one’s many emotional hungers and the animalistic need for survival. Grounded in Vermont’s nature and lush with questions and incantations,…
THREE POETS LAUREATE IN CONVERSATION
Join us for a poetry reading and conversation on the role of the localized poet laureate in service to the community. DIANNELY ANTIGUA (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) grapples with the body as a site of pain and trauma in Good Monster, chronicling her reckoning with shame, her fallout with faith, and the desire to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body. Love Prodigal by TRACI BRIMHALL (Kansas) lives in the dishevelment of starting over from a divorce and a new diagnosis,…
RUPTURE & REPAIR: POETRY OF DISPLACEMENT & TRANSFORMATION
ARMEN DAVOUDIAN’s The Palace of Forty Pillars tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran, and an immigrant in America in order to recreate, in art’s reflection, the image of a lost home. SARETTA MORGAN opens Alt-Nature to the desert as a practice of sensuality in which landscapes and Black queer social ecologies illuminate an anti-map of being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation,…
HARD-WON HOLINESS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA JACOBS & AVA NATHANIEL WINTER
Join us for a discussion on the tender and difficult poetry found between religious traditions, queer desire, Jewish transfemininity, cultural histories, and the ethical knots of sacred texts. Structured around the 12 parshiyot (portions) of Genesis, JESSICA JACOBS’ unalone parallels immersion in Jewish teachings with the contemporary world and the author’s experiences growing up queer, embracing one’s sexuality, reversing roles as the adult child of aging parents, and other imposed roles of womanhood. In Transgenesis, AVA NATHANIEL WINTER challenges concepts of the beautiful and the sacred,…