Rick Barot

Rick Barot is the author of Moving the Bones. He was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.His fourth book of poems The Galleons was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. It was listed on the top ten poetry books for 2020 by the New York Public Library, was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Awards, and was on the longlist for the National Book Award. He teaches at Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Tacoma, Washington.

Kristen Case

Kristen Case is a poet and scholar. She is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe and three books of poetry, most recently, Daphne.

Alexandra Manglis

Alexandra Manglis is a coeditor of 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive. She is also a writer and and cofounder of the experimental poetry magazine Wave Composition. Her work has appeared in The Millions, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Strange Horizons. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and holds a DPhil in English from the University of Oxford. She lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Chicago, IL —

John James at Myopic Books

Join Myopic Books for a reading by John James (The Milk Hours. 2019) and Hugh Schwartzberg.

Providence, RI —

John James at Riffraff

Join Riffraff for a reading by John James, author of The Milk Hours (2019).

Chicago, IL —

John McCarthy at Hungry Brain

Join Hungry Brain for their monthly reading series: Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose, & Cocktails. The July event will feature John McCarthy (Scared Violent Like Horses, 2019).

Minneapolis, MN —
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Minnesota Book Awards: Voices in Poetry, feat. Claire Wahmanholm

Join the Minnesota Book Awards for a pop-up event during The Loft’s Wordplay. 2019 Kay Sexton Award Honoree and author David Mura will moderate a conversation and reading with three of this year’s poetry finalists: Mary Moore Easter, Claire Wahmanholm (Wilder, 2018), and Chaun Webster.

New Haven, CT —
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"A Blue Dark" Opening Reception with Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Join The Gallery Upstairs at the Institute Library for the opening reception of A Blue Dark. In this exhibition, Connecticut-based visual artist Fritz Horstman collaborates with Paris-based poet, translator, and Zheng harpist Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Sea Summit, 2016) to explore a cross-genre range of textual/non-textual responses to the presence of a luminous dark.

Bronx, NY —
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Sprout Lands: William Bryant Logan with Robin Wall Kimmerer

Join the New York Botaincal Garden for a lecture by William Bryant Logan, author of Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees, followed by a converstaion with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass (2014).

 

Gregory Orr

Gregory Orr is the author of more than ten collections of poems, including, most recently, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write, and several volumes of essays, criticism and memoir. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for The Blessing.

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