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An Alice James Quartet
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Alice James Books publishes poets whose writing possesses the range, depth, and ability to cultivate greater empathy in our world and to dynamically push against silence. This work is instrumental in driving conversations that help us overcome the barriers we face. Four poets with new or forthcoming collections from Alice James will read from their work and discuss their writing process.
Participants
Carey Salerno is the executive editor and director of Alice James Books. She is the author of Tributary and Shelter and an editor of the anthology Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books. Her poems, essays, and articles are in print and online.
Jeffrey Thomson is the author of seven books of poems, most recently, Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory from Alice James Books. He was Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre and is a professor of creative writing at University Maine Farmington.
Rosebud Ben-Oni won the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery and is the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS. She received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and CantoMundo; her work has been commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in NYC.
Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. She is Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and she is the author of the poetry collection Arrow, published in the US by Alice James Books and in the UK by Carcanet Press in 2020.
Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US and the UK, most recently No Ruined Stone. Her work has received recognition, including the Silver Musgrave Medal and OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry. She teaches at Penn State University. She was appointed the 2021–22 Penn State laureate.
