Join Francis W. Parker School in welcoming back to campus five outstanding alumni poets for an evening of poetry. Grady Chambers (North American Stadiums, 218) will read along with Callie Siskel, Elise Paschen, Sophie Grimes, and Julian Randall.  The program includes a reading and a student-moderated discussion on “What it means to be a poet in 2019,” followed by a book signing.

Scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the prize-winning Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, and Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Powers, author of The Overstory, join Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place and The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, in conversation.

Avid Bookshop presents Kathy Fagan and Peter Mishler for the April installment of the Avid Poetry Series. This event will take place on Friday, April 26, 2019, from 6:30-7:30pm at our Prince Avenue location and is free and open to the public. We encourage you to purchase copies of their books and get them signed by the authors!

Ed Pavlić will read from and discuss Another Kind of Madness. A Q&A and signing will follow the reading.

Abigail DeWitt (News of Our Loved Ones) and Ed Pavlić (Another Kind of Madness) discuss their far-reaching fiction, featuring characters faced with global and personal turbulence. Book sales and signing will follow.

Charles Coe, whose latest book is Memento Mori, reads with Don Bogen, author most recently of Immediate Song.

Richard Powers, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Arnold Arboretum Director William “Ned” Friedman will join voices in this guided conversation about trees. Melding readings with discussion; drawing on mystery, lore, and science; they will convey the challenges and rewards of trying to represent non-humans—speaking both for and as the trees

Join the English Department on March 19th at 6:30 PM in the TCU Bookstore for the second Live Oak Reading of the semester, featuring Alex Lemon (Another Last Day, 2019) and Margaret Fleming. Admission is free, and all are welcome!