Cincinnati, OH —

In person: Yalie Saweda Kamara appearing at Contemporary Arts Center featuring Ross Gay

Join for the launch of Besaydoo, the award-winning highly acclaimed debut full-length poetry collection from Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Yalie Saweda Kamara. Following this reading, Yalie will be joined in conversation with poet, author and professor Ross Gay. Questions will also be fielded from the audience.

6:00 pm: Reception
7:00 pm Program
8:15: Book sales & signing


 

 

Grist

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Ellen Wayland-Smith

Ellen Wayland-Smith is the author of Oneida and The Angel in the Marketplace. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, The Millions, Longreads, The American Scholar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Lauren Russell

Lauren Russell is the author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close; Descent, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award; and What’s Hanging on the Hush.

Minneapolis, MN —

In Person: Saretta Morgan at Milkweed Books, with Douglas Kearney

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes Saretta Morgan for a reading from her new poetry book Alt-Nature, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest. Saretta will read from Alt-Nature and talk about her book in conversation with poet Douglas Kearney, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.

Please join us at 6 PM at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore located on the first floor of Open Book, for an unforgettable night of poetry!

 

About the book

Alt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds. Here, geography forms the…

Bruce Humes

Bruce Humes is the translator of the bestseller Shanghai Baby and now specializes in translating writing by/about China-based Altaic peoples and Silk Road culture. Since 2009 he has hosted the blog Ethnic ChinaLit. He lives in Taiwan and is studying Turkish.

Chi Zijian

Chi Zijian received the Mao Dun Literary Award—the highest honor for a novelist in China—for The Last Quarter of the Moon, which has been translated into ten languages.

Rebecca Spiegel

Rebecca Spiegel teaches writing in Philadelphia, where she lives with her family. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Without Her is her first book.

Chris La Tray

Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the mighty Red River of the North, and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. La Tray is the Montana Poet Laureate for 2023–2025 and a former bookseller at Fact & Fiction. He writes the weekly newsletter “An Irritable Métis” and lives near Frenchtown, Montana.
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