Join Brazos Bookstore for the virtual launch of Hayan Charara’s These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit. Free and open to the public. Charara will be joined in conversation by Glenn Shaheen. More details here!
In partnership with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and as the closing event for the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, we present poets Victoria Chang and Rita Dove as they read from and discuss their recent books. Chang received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Obit, and Dove is a long-time juror for the AWBA, which was established in 1935 and is the only juried American book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity. As part of the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, this event is FREE to attend and open to the public. THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Book sales and signing will follow. Details here!
Victoria Chang (Dear Memory) and Kat Chow (Seeing Ghosts) share deep, personal sorrow in their recent memoirs, haunting portraits of grief, remembrance, and meaning. Their books offer close examinations of the losses that shaped them, preserved histories that help illumine generational connections, and the emotional significance of memory. As part of the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, this event is FREE to attend and open to the public. THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT / LIVESTREAM ALSO AVAILABLE. Book sales and signing follow. Details here!
Join Harvard University’s Woodberry Poetry Room for their Vocarium Reading Series event with two sonically-charged poets of intense attunement, precision, and poignancy: Jos Charles (author of FEELD and A YEAR & OTHER POEMS) and Douglas Kearney (author of SHO and BUCK STUDIES). Register here!
Loyalty is delighted to host Jennifer Huang, Jeni De La O, and Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie to celebrate Huang’s collection Return Flight! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event with a donation of any amount of your choice or you can order the book on Loyalty’s website to be added to the event’s registration list. Donations will go to BLM DC. There will also be an option to snag the book during the event.
Join Milkweed Editions for a virtual reading & conversation with Jennifer Huang, winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. Huang will be joined in conversation by Jos Charles, the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize judge. Register here!
Join Brooklyn Public Library for a virtual reading with Brooklyn Poets, featuring Jennifer Huang, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, and Ed Bok Lee. Register here!
Join Norway House for the virtual launch of Edvard Hoem’s novel Haymaker in Heaven. Register here!
Sinkhole: A Natural History of a Suicide, my first memoir and venture into prose, was a difficult book to write. Guided by the grief and curiosity surrounding my father’s death by suicide in 2009, the book is an attempt to trace a larger legacy of suicide in my familial line. My father’s death marked the third suicide in my immediate family: both my parents had lost their fathers to suicide, a truth that we rarely acknowledged or discussed. When my father died, I began to wonder what had led to these deaths and what my family’s self-destructive history implied.
