AANM presents a live bilingual poetry reading featuring an incredible lineup of poets: Maya Abu-Alhayyat and Zeina Hashem Beck. Join us as the poets read excerpts from their new works, exploring themes of language and notions of home.
Award-winning poet Ada Limón will give her inaugural reading as the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, with an introduction by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The historic reading marks the beginning of Limón’s laureateship, and it traditionally launches the Library’s literary season.
Please join Prairie Lights Bookstore for a reading and conversation with Juliet Patterson in celebration of the release of her book Sinkhole: a Legacy of Suicide (Milkweed, 2022).
What are the sense memories that forge in us the shapes of place, position, lineage? In her much anticipated debut collection Bluest Nude, Ama Codjoe poses question, praise, reflection, and reconsideration into the chorus of ancestors and descendants who sing into a self, the modes of looking outward, inward, and relationally which stitch together bravery and conviction. In his equally celebrated Punks: New & Selected Poems, John Keene surfaces an archive of contact, with poems that exalt eros and heartbreak, the momentary and enduring. Vision and touch are disappearing co-conspirators in the…
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Going Is Forever and Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She has published two chapbooks, Bed and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil will read and speak for Carleton’s Convocation.
Join Ama Codjoe, Aleshea Harris, and Ashaki M. Jacksonin conversation around Ama’s debut collection, Bluest Nude.
Minneapolis-based authors Kathryn Savage and Juliet Patterson will read from their new books of nonfiction Groundglass and Sinkhole.
Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe is the author of Rose Quartz.
Join acclaimed poet, Kathy Fagan, at Gramercy Books as she launches Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens. She will be in conversation with noted poet, educator, editor, and literary critic David Baker.
Registration is on Eventbrite, closing at 6:00 pm on the day of the event. The purchase of Bad Hobby waives the $5 admission fee.
OHIO POETRY ASSOCIATION and OHIO STATE’S CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM are Gramercy’s Community Partners for this program.
