As part of the Loft’s yearlong theme exploring Narrative Power, Courtney Faye Taylor will read from her Cave Canem Poetry Prize–winning poetry collection, Concentrate. Su Hwang will then join Courtney in conversation around the collection that she described as “medicine, testimony, quest, anthem, balm, and seed.” Please join the Loft and Graywolf Press to celebrate the publication of a collection poet Franny Choi declared a “major work, a profoundly moving anti-erasure crafted with equal parts ingenuity and care.”

Presented by the Loft and Graywolf Press.

Book sales and signing will be…

Join us for a special book launch event in celebration of A Darker Wilderness—a vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory featuring a constellation of luminary writers. Featuring live readings from the book’s contributors Michael Kleber-Diggs, katie robinson, and Tia-Simone Gardner, and a conversation to follow.

Join us at 6:00 PM at Milkweed Books located on the first floor of Open Book for light refreshments and a chance to chat with the authors in the gorgeous, newly re-opened bookstore!

Chris Dombrowski discusses his acclaimed new book, The River You Touch, with Amy Leach.

“You won’t soon read a more beautiful book, nor one so earthy, wise, delicious, and alive. This is not a book about fish or rivers or Montana or parenting. This is a book, to paraphrase another poet, plain and simple, to break open the frozen sea within.” —Rick Bass

This virtual event will be streamed on Crowdcast.

Join Ama Codjoe for a reading and conversation in celebration of her debut collection, Bluest Nude.

After surviving a humpback whale crashing into his kayak, Tom Mustill turned to his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker to investigate human-whale interactions around the world. And in How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication, he examines how artificial intelligence – originally designed to translate human languages – is being used to discover and decode patterns in animal communications. After moving from northern India to North America as a teenager, author and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar became increasingly distanced from the natural world she once…

Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Art. Garlic. Taxis. Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints. The smell of trash on a winter street, before “our wild rosebush, neglected / by the gate, / blooms.” Lovers who don’t return, the possibility that you yourself might not return. Making beds. Cleaning up vomit. Reading recipes. In You Can Be the Last Leaf, these are the ordinary and profound—sometimes tragic, sometimes dreamy…

Ada Limón returns to the Miami Book Fair to celebrate her new appointment as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and The Hurting Kind, an astonishing collection about interconnectedness between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves. What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings – and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they “do not / care to be seen as…

Join special guest Ada Limón, Poet Laureate of the United States, to recognize and celebrate the inaugural Sarasota Youth Poet Laureate and program finalists for the 2022-2023 school year.

The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County, along with partnering sponsors Bookstore1 Sarasota and The Ringling Museum, will present the very first Sarasota Youth Poet Laureate and program finalists at their inaugural awards ceremony on Monday, November 7, 2022 at 5:30 PM.

The ceremony will take place on stage of the Historic Asolo Theatre at The Ringling Museum and will include the presentation of…

Join Juliet Patterson for a reading and conversation around her memoir, Sinkhole.