Join the Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Audubon, and Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park for a conversation on the convergence of conservation and culture with Dr. J. Drew Lanham (The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature).
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of World of Wonders, an illustrated essay collection, as well as of four books of poetry, including, most recently, Oceanic, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.
Originally from central Pennsylvania, Allison Adair now lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and GrubStreet. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and ZYZZYVA, among other journals; and have been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in Mid-American Review’s Fineline Competition. She is the author of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize-winning collection, The Clearing, forthcoming June 2020.
For her manuscript The Clearing, chosen by acclaimed poet and judge Henri Cole, Adair will receive $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions in June 2020.
Portland Book Festival is pleased to host Jake Skeets (Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers), alongside authors Sally Wen Mao (Oculus), Paisley Rekdal (Nightingale), and Dao Strom (The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys) for a conversation on displacement—from the body, from home, from time.
Portland Book Festival is pleased to host Jake Skeets (Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers), alongside authors Julian Smith (Aloha Rodeo) and Justin St. Germain (Son of a Gun) for a conversation on reconsidering the American West.
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City of Asylum is pleased to host author Darrel J. McLeod for a celebration of his debut memoir, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age, as part of their memoir reading series.
Grolier Poetry Bookshop is pleased to welcome Jake Skeets for an evening of poetry readings. Jake Skeets will read from his award winning collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, alongside authors Joan Navyiuk Kane and Santee Fraizer.
The Rumpus is pleased to host Jake Skeets, author of the award winning collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, for a pop-up poetry reading at the Portland Book Festival. Jake Skeets will join forces with authors Kristen Arnett (Mostly Dead Things) and Malcolm Tariq (Heed the Hollow) for this poetry reading.
