Join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation with Sari Botton, Athena Dixon, Sarah Hartshorne, and Joseph Lee for the Open Secrets Live Personal Storytelling Summit. The authors will be in conversation for Panel 6, “Identity.” Books will be sold onsite by Kew & Willow Books.
Join Sangamithra Iyer, María Ospina, Kate Zambreno, and Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian at the PEN America World Voices Festival for “The Lives of Animals: The False Divide Between Humans and Non-Human.” In this conversation, these authors will challenge the arbitrary borders between the human and non-human worlds.
Join Jennifer Eli Bowen at Serendipity Books for their year-anniversary of the Better Tomorrow Book Club, where there will be a reading and discussion of her latest work The Book of Kin.
blush / river / fox is the startling English-language debut of Swedish polymath Anna Nygren. The collection is at once a domestic autistic ethnography, a more-than-human erotic pastoral, and an illustrated choreography of bewilderment. In this original piece accompanying the book, Anna contemplates the intersections of the world girl, neuro/queerness, and writing.
there is something with Girl. writing blush had to do with Girl. there is something with Girl that is like a ghost in me. the ghost is like a pretend and a play it is like a soft hurting. there is a ghost of Girl tickling pleasurely unpleasantly…
Join Beth Piatote at Pegasus Books downtown for a reading and discussion of her latest work, distant water.
Jake Skeets—Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, Whiting Award winner, and author of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award–winning Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers—returns with Horses, a powerful and long-awaited second collection. Opening with the haunting image of two hundred horses lost on Navajo land, the book moves through questions of climate change, belonging, and survival, while holding space for beauty, imagination, and joy.
Known for his groundbreaking queer, Indigenous poetics, Skeets continues to explore the deep connections between land, language, and identity, crafting poems that are at once intimate and expansive. Horses is a fierce and…
Join Angela Pelster with Charlotte Taylor Fryar at Lost City Books for a reading and discussion of her latest work, The Evolution of Fire.
Join JJJJJerome Ellis, author of Aster of Ceremonies, with Mary Hanson Scott at Berlin for a synth-and-saxophone show.
