Dana Levin Book Launch with Paul Tran
2022-04-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | High Low Building, 3301 Washington, St. Louis, MO, 63103, United States
Dana Levin Book Launch with Paul Tran
Join Dana Levin and Paul Tran for a reading, conversation, and celebration of their new books.

Katonah Poetry Series presents Arthur Sze
2022-04-24 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Katonah Village Library
Katonah Poetry Series presents Arthur Sze
Join the Katonah Poetry Series for an in-person poetry reading featuring Arthur Sze.

Christopher Soto Book Launch Tour
2022-05-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Making Worlds Bookstore
Christopher Soto Book Launch Tour
From the organizers:
Join Christopher Soto at Making Worlds Bookstore in celebration of their debut collection, Diaries of a Terrorist. In person event.

Christopher Soto Virtual Book Launch Tour
2022-05-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Ace Hotel, 20 W 29th St, New York, NY, United States
Christopher Soto Virtual Book Launch Tour
From the organizers:
Join Christopher Soto at Ace Hotel, NY in celebration of their debut collection, Diaries of a Terrorist.

Lannan presents Arthur Sze with Forrest Gander
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Lannan presents Arthur Sze with Forrest Gander
Join Lannan for an in-person reading and conversation with Arthur Sze and Forrest Gander. This event will also be live-streamed.
More info here: https://lannan.org/events/arthur-sze-with-forrest-gander

Bennington College presents Poetry Reading with Paisley Rekdal
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bennington College, Tishman Lecture Hall
Bennington College presents Poetry Reading with Paisley Rekdal
Bennington College presents poetry reading and book signing with Paisley Rekdal on May 11th at 7:00 PM ET.

Christopher Soto Book Launch Tour
2022-05-14 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Artbook at Hauser and Wirth, 917 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Christopher Soto Book Launch Tour
From the organizers:
Join Christopher Soto at Artbook at Hauser and Wirth in celebration of their debut collection, Diaries of a Terrorist. In person event.

Buddhist Film Festival presents Special Screening Event featuring Bill Porter (Red Pine)
2022-05-15 16:15 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA, 94901, United States
Buddhist Film Festival presents Special Screening Event featuring Bill Porter (Red Pine), Copresented with California Film Institute
Join the Buddhist Film Festival for a Special Screening of The Mountain Path at the Smith Rafael Film Center with Special Guests: Director Edward Burger, and Bill Porter, author of The Road to Heaven.
From the organizers:
This special event brings Edward Burger and Bill Porter together for a spirited in-person conversation after the screening. Porter rarely travels from his home in Port Townsend, WA these days, and we’re delighted to host him here. He will also be signing a number of his books in the lobby of the theater. In-person only, not to be missed! Come early for the best selection of books and meet Bill Porter.

More info here: https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/the-mountain-path/

Raven Book Store presents Poetry Night with Traci Brimhall and Amanda Moore
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Raven Book Store, 809 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, 66044, United States
Raven Book Store presents Poetry Night with Traci Brimhall and Amanda Moore
From the organizers:
Join acclaimed poets Traci Brimhall and Amanda Moore for a wonderful night of poetry and magic at the Raven Book Store on Thursday, May 19, 2022 – 7:00pm CDT.

New York Public Library presents Sarah Ruhl and Ada Limon
2022-05-27 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
New York Public Library presents Sarah Ruhl and Ada Limon
From the organizer:
In May, we are proud to partner with independent publishers Milkweed Editions and Copper Canyon press to present readings of new work by poet Ada Limón and playwright Sarah Ruhl.
Register here: https://www.showclix.com/event/mayhappyhour/tag/pub

McNally Jackson presents Sarah Ruhl in conversation with Paul Muldoon
2022-05-31 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | McNally Jackson Books, 4 Fulton St, New York, NY, 10038, United States
McNally Jackson presents Sarah Ruhl in conversation with Paul Muldoon
From the organizers:
Join two celebrated writers, Sarah Ruhl and Paul Muldoon, to celebrate the publication of their new books, both lyrical and ambitious works which grapple with pandemics, quarantine, and the crises of our times.
We ask that all guests show proof of vaccination and encourage masks on the night.
RSVP here: https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/sarah-ruhl-conversation-paul-muldoon-rsvp-may-31st

Book Launch for Cate Marvin's Event Horizon
2022-06-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Space Gallery, Portland, Maine, United States
Book Launch for Cate Marvin‘s Event Horizon
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is sponsoring a Launch Party for Cate Marvin’s fourth book, Event Horizon, on June 2nd at Space Gallery in Portland, Maine.

House of SpeakEasy presents Seriously Entertaining with Sarah Ruhl
2022-06-07 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | NY
House of SpeakEasy presents Seriously Entertaining with Sarah Ruhl
From the organizer:
On June 7, Pulitzer-Prize and Tony Award-nominated playwright and writer Sarah Ruhl, author and essayist Zakiya Dalila Harris, writer and creative director Jen Winston, and debut novelist David Santos Donaldson will share engaging and entertaining stories tied to the evening’s theme “Being and Becoming.”
More info: https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2022/h/house-of-speakeasy-winterspring-22/

Ojai Music Festival presents The Echoing of Tenses with Arthur Sze
2022-06-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Libbey Bowl
Ojai Music Festival presents The Echoing of Tenses with Arthur Sze
From the organizers:
A new song cycle, the echoing of tenses, commissioned from Anthony Cheung, sets poetry by Asian-American writers interconnected by the larger theme of memory, made complicated by the circumstances and tensions of cultural and personal identity, family, migration, loss, and reflection. The various poems by Arthur Sze, Monica Youn, Jenny Xie, Ocean Vuong, and others, will be sung, spoken, and interwoven throughout. The work features Paul Appleby, Miranda Cuckson, and Conor Hanick, and a score that mixes live performance with pre-recorded sound design, in collaboration with David Bird.
This is an in-person event.
More info here: https://www.ojaifestival.org/2022-festival-schedule/

Scrag Mountain Music presents The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music
2022-06-15 19:00 - 2022-06-18 23:30 (America/New_York) | NY
Scrag Mountain Music and The Literary Estate of David Budbill presents The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music. More information about this multi-day event can be found here: http://www.scragmountainmusic.org/sutras.html
From the organizers:
Scrag Mountain Music and The Literary Estate of David Budbill presents “Sutras for a Suffering World: The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music” for a multi-day event.
Register here: https://www.facebook.com/events/405026871368320/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A716578879535427%7D%7D]%22%7D

Women & Children First presents An Evening with Sarah Ruhl
2022-06-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Women & Children First presents An Evening with Sarah Ruhl

From the organizer: “Join us for an in-person reading, audience Q&A, and book-signing with Sarah Ruhl in honor of her two recent releases, Love Poems in Quarantine and Smile: The Story of a Face.
Please note: all in-person events held at Women & Children First require masks and proof of vaccination.”

Bookends & Beginnings presents A Conversation with Sarah Ruhl and Chris Abani
2022-06-29 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Avenue, Alley #1, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
Bookends & Beginnings presents A Conversation with Sarah Ruhl and Chris Abani!

From the organizers: “Join us in the Bookends & Beginnings Courtyard for a conversation between Sarah Ruhl and Chris Abani about their new books of poetry, Love Poems in Quarantine and Smoking the Bible. We will have copies of both books for sale in the bookstore or you can pre-order your book and we’ll have it signed and ready to pick up at the event. If you want a personalized dedication, enter your desired inscription in the “Notes” field when you place the order.”

Silo City Reading Series featuring Jericho Brown
2022-08-27 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Silo City, 85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
Silo City Reading Series featuring Jericho Brown
From the organizer:
Join us for the season finale of the 2022 SILO CITY READING SERIES featuring poetry from Jericho Brown and JBLC Poetry Fellow TBA, a musical performance by Florist, and an installation by Johann Diedrick.

Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2022-09-10 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W Liberty St, Reno, NV, 89501, United States
Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
From the organizers:
“Keynote Event: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.
We are thrilled to welcome authors, artists, and community members back to the streets of Reno for a Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl reunion like no other. Join us for a festival of books, ideas, and the humanities as we bring people together to celebrate the rich literary talent throughout this region. This year’s Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl features dozens of readings of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry on and around California Avenue, workshops, panel discussions, art, family-friendly activities, and a few surprises! Access to all events is free, and all ages are welcome to participate.”

Hudson Valley Writers Center presents 2022 Gala honoring Arthur Sze and Lauren Acampora
2022-09-22 18:30 (America/New_York) | Philipse Manor Station, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Hudson Valley Writers Center presents 2022 Gala, Thursday, September 22 at 6:30 PM ET, honoring Arthur Sze and Lauren Acampora
From the organizers:
“The Hudson Valley Writers Center is thrilled to present the 2022 Gala honoring poet Arthur Sze and novelist Lauren Acampora!
Join the festivities in person (Thursday, September 22, 6:30 PM)
Enjoy live readings by this year’s acclaimed honorees in our historic Philipse Manor Station overlooking the Hudson River! In person tickets ($150) include:

Cocktails, light dinner by Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill, and desserts from Susan Lawrence Catering
The chance to bid on live auction items including unique experiences, events, restaurant and personal care gift certificates, and consultations with your favorite teachers.
The chance to win MULTIPLE in person RAFFLE PRIZES including a free HVWC workshop, signed hardback copies of Arthur Sze’s Glass Constellation, Lauren Acampora’s Hundred Waters, and more!

Our gala will be held indoors and also outdoors under a tent. We encourage all attendees to be up to date on their vaccinations and boosters, but are not planning to check status at this time. While not eating or drinking, we encourage attendees to wear a mask indoors. If you are not feeling well on the day of the gala, we encourage you to attend the reading via Zoom. Our in person gala will host a maximum of 100 people and seating will not be distanced. Doors and windows will remain open as weather permits. We will adhere to the latest public health guidelines which may result in changing policies. Thank you for your assistance in keeping our community safe.”
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/2022gala/

AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS: TANEUM BAMBRICK presents INTIMACIES, RECEIVED with DOROTHY CHAN
2022-09-28 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, CA
AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS: TANEUM BAMBRICK presents INTIMACIES, RECEIVED with DOROTHY CHAN
From the organizers:
“In this astonishing second collection by Taneum Bambrick, violence hides in the glint of the carving knife—every intimacy a shadow, every memory a maze to navigate. Set primarily in rural Southern Spain, Intimacies, Received moves through streets and fields, households and years, following a survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative of self. A brilliant storyteller, Bambrick builds through palimpsest—layering vivid imagery to recall embodiment and dissociation, illness and isolation, queer female sexuality amidst acts of misogyny—utilizing varied forms including ekphrasis, persona, and a lyric essay. Ultimately, Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma is held to the light and finally named.
Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press, Sept 2022) and Vantage, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award (American Poetry Review 2019). A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is currently a Dornsife Fellow in the PhD program at the University of Southern California. Her work appears in New Yorker, The Nation, Academy of American Poets, PEN and elsewhere.
Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author of most recently, BABE, a book forthcoming with Diode Editions this Winter 2021, in addition to Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). They were a 2020 and 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Their work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Editor Emeritus of Hobart, Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization. Visit their website at dorothypoetry.com Chan received a PhD from Florida State University in 2019, an MFA from Arizona State University in 2015, and a BA from Cornell University in 2012.”

Left Bank Ciders presents The Northern Spy Reading Series with Dana Levin
2022-09-28 19:30 (America/New_York) | Left Bank Ciders, 150 Water Street, Catskills, NY, 12414, United States
Left Bank Ciders presents The Northern Spy Reading Series, 7:30 PM ET, with Dana Levin
From the organizers:
“Wednesday September 28th! 7:30 at Left Bank Ciders, Dana Levin + HR Webster”
For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070143199289

Katonah Poetry Series features Dana Levin
2022-10-02 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Katonah Village Library
Katonah Poetry Series features Dana Levin
Join the Katonah Poetry Series for an in-person poetry reading featuring Dana Levin on October 2, 2022.
More info here: https://katonahpoetry.com/october-2-2022-dana-levin/

Katonah Poetry Series presents Dana Levin
2022-10-02 16:00 (America/New_York) | Katonah Village Library
Katonah Poetry Series presents, Sunday, October 2 at 4 PM ET, Dana Levin
From the organizers:
“This in-person reading at the Katonah Village Library does not require registration. Admission fee ($15) can be paid at the door.”
More information will appear here: https://katonahpoetry.com/

Iowa City Book Festival presents Jennifer L. Knox @ Prairie Lights
2022-10-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Prairie Lights, 15 South Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Jennifer L. Knox presents Crushing It at Prairie Lights. Part of the Iowa City Book Festival. From the organizers:
The poems in Jennifer Knox’s darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects―from history to true crime to epidemiology―while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of cocaine to absurdist romps through an apocalypse where mushrooms learn to sing, this versatile collection is brimming with dark humor and bright surprise. Alongside Knox’s distinctive surrealism, Crushing It also reveals autobiography in poems about love, family, and adult ADHD, and Knox’s empathetic depictions of the ego’s need to assert its precious, singular “I” suggest that a self distinct from the hive, the herd, the flock, is an illusion. With clear-eyed spirit, Crushing It swallows all the world, and then some.
Jennifer L. Knox is the author of four books of poems: Days of Shame & Failure (Bloof Books, 2015), The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway (Bloof, 2010), Drunk by Noon (Bloof, 2007), and A Gringo Like Me (Soft Skull Press, 2005, Bloof, 2007). Known for their dark, imaginative humor, her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, four times in the Best American Poetry series, and the 2022 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Jennifer grew up in Lancaster, California—home to Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, and the Space Shuttle. She studied film and glassblowing at Alfred University, then earned BA in English at the University of Iowa, where she attended the undergraduate Writer’s Workshop. She earned her MFA from New York University. Her honors include three Milwaukee Poetry Slam champion titles and an Iowa Arts Council Fellowship for her crowdsourced poetry project, Iowa Bird of Mouth. Jennifer lives in central Iowa, where she teaches at Iowa State University and in a series of private poetry writing classes online.

Can Art Change The World? A Panel Discussion with Jennifer L. Knox
2022-10-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Tuesday Agency, 404 E College St Suite 408,, Iowa City,, IA
Jennifer L. Knox will participate in a vital discussion of the function of art in our present day. From the Organizers:
Hosted by Maya Davis (Stanley Center for Peace and Security) with guests Cynthia Lazaroff (Impact Fellow, Games for Change), Rodrigo Reyes (Director, Sansón and Me), and Jennifer L. Knox
Listen to a multitude of artists, working in different disciplines, address the lasting social impacts of art. Can words, images, and stories move the world towards real change? Our speakers will endeavor to find the answer to the question or maybe just end up with more questions of their own to this thorny and thought-provoking prompt.
Free appetizers. Presented in Partnership with Stanley Center for Peace and Security. This event is open to the public. Free drinks for passholders.

John Freeman With Debra Gwartney at Elliot Bay Book Co.
2022-10-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliot Bay Book Company
Join John Freeman and Debra Gwartney for readings and a discussion of Wind, Trees.

John Freeman, Natalie Shapero, and Tayi Tibble Read at Diesel Bookstore
2022-10-27 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Diesel, A Bookstore, 225 26th St, Santa monica, CA, 90402
From the Organizers:
Join us on Thursday October 27th at 6:30pm as we welcome John Freeman, Tayi Tibble and Natalie Shapero to the store to read from and sign Wind, Trees and other selected works.
This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood. Masks are required to attend.

John Freeman is the founder of Freeman’s, the literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His work includes the poetry collections Maps and The Park, the book-length essay Dictionary of the Undoing, and several anthologies, among them Tales of Two Americas, a volume on inequality in America, Tales of Two Planets, which examines the climate crisis globally, and There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love, coedited by Tracy K. Smith, a portrait of the United States on the cusp of revolution, climate crisis, and the upheavals of a pandemic. His work has been translated into over twenty languages, and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and ZYZZYVA. The former editor of Granta, he teaches at NYU and hosts the California Book Club, a monthly discussion of a book from California for Alta Journal.
In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind, and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought and punctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.

Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) was born in 1995 and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2017, she completed a master’s degree in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, where she was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Her second book of poetry, Rangikura, will be published in the United States in 2023.
Poukahangatus, the American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation

Natalie Shapero is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection Popular Longing. Her previous collections are Hard Child, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and No Object, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. She teaches at UC Irvine.
The poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection, Popular Longing, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp, sardonic wit, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars, our inflated egos, our constant deference to presumed higher powers―be they romantic partners, employers, institutions, or gods. “Why even / look up, when all we’ll see is people / looking down?” In a world where everyone has to answer to someone, it seems no one is equipped to disrupt the status quo, and how the most urgent topics of conversation can only be approached through refraction.

Cate Marvin and Randall Mann in Conversation with Michael Dumanis
2022-11-01 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Commons 326, North Bennington, VT
Cate Marvin and Randall Mann will have a discussion with Michael Dumanis as part of Bennington College’s Poetry at Bennington programs on Thursday, November 3 at 12 PM ET
From the Organizers:
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Randall Mann is a queer, multiracial poet, critic, and medical writer. He is the author of five books of poems, most recently Proprietary (Persea, 2017) and A Better Life (Persea, 2021). He is also the author of a book of criticism, essays, and interviews, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems. His writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, LitHub, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and his books have been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, California Book Award, and Northern California Book Award. Mann’s Deal: New and Selected is forthcoming with Copper Canyon in 2023. He lives in San Francisco.
Cate Marvin is the author of four books of poetry, including Event Horizon (Copper Canyon, 2022) and Oracle (Norton), a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2015. With poet Michael Dumanis, she is the co-editor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). In 2009 Marvin co-founded VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, an organization that seeks to “explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women” in contemporary culture. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and a Whiting Writers’ Award, she teaches at the College of Staten Island and in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. She lives in Scarborough, Maine.
Contact:

Literature Programs
jessicalynn@bennington.edu
802-440-4376

John Freeman and Forrest Gander At City Lights Bookstore
2022-11-02 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | City Lights Foundation, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94133
A reading and discussion of John Freeman’s forthcoming collection Wind, Trees. From the Organizers:
City Lights Foundation, in partnership with Alta Journal, presents John Freeman in a reading of new work and conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Forrest Gander. This free event celebrates Freeman’s new collection of poetry, Wind, Trees, published by Copper Canyon Press, and will take place in Jack Kerouac Alley, between City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco. Seating is on a first-come-first-served basis, and face masks are recommended.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice, by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought and punctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.
ABOUT THE GUESTS:
John Freeman is the founder of the literary annual Freeman’s and an executive editor at Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality that he edited, among them Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation and Tales of Two Planets, which features dispatches from around the world, where the climate crisis has unfolded at crucially different rates. His poetry collections include Maps and The Park. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Orion, Zyzzyva, and Alta Journal. He is a former editor of Granta and an artist in residence at New York University.
Forrest Gander is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, author, translator, and essayist. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and essays. Twice Alive is his latest collection of poetry. His translations include the work of Gozo Yoshimasu, Pablo Neruda, Alfonso D’Aquino, and Raúl Zurita. He has received numerous honors for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Be With and the Best Translated Book Award, as well as fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation, and United States Artists. He makes his home in Northern California.
