Jennifer Eli Bowen
Jennifer Eli Bowen is a writer, arts instructor, and editor.
Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. A MacArthur Fellow and renown author, his previous books include The Gift, Trickster Makes This World, and A Primer for Forgetting.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau is one of the most widely recognized names in American letters. Born in 1817, he wrote extensively on naturalism, transcendentalism, philosophy, global and American politics, and abolition.
Jason Allen-Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry, Thinking with Trees and Self-Portrait as Othello, which won the United Kingdom’s two most prestigious poetry awards for 2023—the Forward Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize.
Keith S. Wilson
Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow.
New York, NY —
In Person: Claire Wahmanholm at the National Book Foundation's 2025 Science + Literature Ceremony
Join the National Book Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Cooper Union for the 2025 Science + Literature Ceremony, celebrating the three remarkable 2025 Science + Literature selected titles in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Selected authors Claire Wahmanholm for Meltwater, Ed Yong for An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, and Ramona Ausubel forThe Last Animal will join for readings and conversation. Learn more about the event here.
Newton, MA —
In Person: Shilpi Suneja in Conversation with Sana Haroon at Newtonville Books
Join Shilpi Suneja in conversation with Sana Harron at Newtonville Books to celebrate the launch of the newly packaged paperback, House of Caravans.
Los Angeles, CA —
Virtual: Ellen Wayland-Smith in Conversation with Eula Biss, Lochlann Jain, and Maggie Nelson
Join Ellen Wayland-Smith to discuss new book The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self. The author will be joined by Eula Biss, Lochlann Jain, and moderated by Maggie Nelson.
This discussion is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities’ “Book Chats” series, organized in partnership with the USC Writing Program, the Department of English, and the HEAL program at the Keck School of Medicine. Learn more and register here.
New York, NY —
Virtual: Yalie Saweda Kamara in Poets & Writers's "The Luminous Life: Debut Poets Virtual Reading"
Join Yalie Saweda Kamara alongside Stephanie Choi, Matthew Gellman, Jimin Seo, and Sarah Ghazal Ali for the first program in Poets & Writers’s “The Luminous Life: Debut Poets Virtual Reading.” More information and registration information here.
Denver, CO —
In Person: Wayne Miller in Conversation with Juan Morales and Kevin Prufer at The Shop at MATTER
Join Wayne Miller for the launch of his forthcoming poetry collection, The End of Childhood. Wayne will be joined by Juan Morales and Kevin Prufer for a reading, conversation, and Q&A at The Shop at MATTER. More information on the event here.