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New Poetry from Graywolf Press
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am
Five extraordinary poets will present and read from their new collections published by Graywolf Press, one of the leading independent publishers in the country. In singular, profound voices, these poets reckon with the gravity of what it is to witness and live through the vital struggles and issues of our time—colonialism, domestic violence, police murders, racism, sexuality, existential grief, mortality—and, with care, disrupt the borders between our interior and political realities.
Participants
Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, translator, and librettist who served as poet laureate of the United States from 2017–19. She is a professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Vijay Seshadri is the author of five collections of poems: Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, The Disappearances, 3 Sections, and That Was Now, This Is Then. His work has been recognized with a number of honors, including the Pulitzer Prize.
Jim Moore's book of poetry, Prognosis, was published by Graywolf in November, 2021. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry and has been writing poems for more than fifty years.
Donika Kelly is the author of the full-length collections The Renunciations and Bestiary. She is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa.
