Brooklyn Book Festival
Columbus Park
Center Stage
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
Free and open to the public
The Brooklyn Book Festival will host North American Stadiums author Grady Chambers for a poetry reading with Patricia Smith (Incendiary Art) and Jenny Xie (Eye Level). Moderated by Ricardo Maldonado, Unterberg Poetry Center, Managing Director. LEARN MORE
The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages to enjoy authors and the festival’s lively literary marketplace.
Grady Chambers
Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, attended the MFA program at Syracuse University, and has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and the New York State Summer Writers Institute.
The winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.