Category: Poetry

Jennifer Militello

Kristin Maffei 2019 Authors, Author's A-M, Memoir, Poetry

Join award-winning writer Jennifer Militello as she reads from Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. After a knock on wood to ward off illness sets off a series of events and memories, Militello explores her life through the lens of three intertwined elements: the story of a mentally ill aunt in an abusive […]

12:00 Friday – Chard deNiord

Kristin Maffei 2019 Authors, Author's A-M, Friday, Poetry

Unitarian Chapel

Interstate
Poetry

Ocean Vuong

Roger Logan 2019 Authors, Author's N-Z, Fiction, Poetry

Ocean Vuong is the author of the debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and […]

2:00 Friday – James Crews

Roger Logan 2019 Authors, Author's A-M, Friday, Poetry

Unitarian Chapel

Telling My Father
Poetry

3:00 Friday – Vievee Francis

Roger Logan 2019 Authors, Author's A-M, Friday, Poetry

Unitarian Chapel

Forest Primeval
Poetry

Maggie Smith

Roger Logan 2019 Authors, Author's N-Z, Poetry

Maggie Smith is the author of three award-winning books of poems: Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Good Bones, named by the Washington Post as one of the Five Best Poetry Books of 2017. The title poem of her most recent book was called the “Official Poem of 2016” by Public Radio […]

Carolyn Forché

Roger Logan 2019 Authors, Author's A-M, Poetry

Carolyn Forché’s first volume, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Random House, 2019), a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to […]