A Q & A with a spokesperson from the Fargo American Foundation for Suicide Prevention will follow.

A virtual celebration and poetry reading and conversation with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat & Special Guest Deema Shehabi.

AANM presents a live bilingual poetry reading featuring an incredible lineup of poets: Maya Abu-Alhayyat and Zeina Hashem Beck. Join us as the poets read excerpts from their new works, exploring themes of language and notions of home.

Award-winning poet Ada Limón will give her inaugural reading as the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, with an introduction by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The historic reading marks the beginning of Limón’s laureateship, and it traditionally launches the Library’s literary season.

Please join Prairie Lights Bookstore for a reading and conversation with Juliet Patterson in celebration of the release of her book Sinkhole: a Legacy of Suicide (Milkweed, 2022).

What are the sense memories that forge in us the shapes of place, position, lineage? In her much anticipated debut collection Bluest Nude, Ama Codjoe poses question, praise, reflection, and reconsideration into the chorus of ancestors and descendants who sing into a self, the modes of looking outward, inward, and relationally which stitch together bravery and conviction. In his equally celebrated Punks: New & Selected Poems, John Keene surfaces an archive of contact, with poems that exalt eros and heartbreak, the momentary and enduring. Vision and touch are disappearing co-conspirators in the…

Aimee Nezhukumatathil will read and speak for Carleton’s Convocation.

Join Ama Codjoe, Aleshea Harris, and Ashaki M. Jacksonin conversation around Ama’s debut collection, Bluest Nude.