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W.W. Norton Poets: A New Generation
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
W.W. Norton’s historic list of poets includes Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, A R. Ammons, Ai, Stanley Kunitz, and Joy Harjo—poets who published books that reflect their social moment and resonate beyond, yet not at the expense of craft and meaningful individualism. In this panel, midcareer and younger poets to Norton will read their work and discuss what it means to be part of a socially conscious tradition of poetry that adheres to democratic ideals of diversity and aesthetic innovation.
Participants
Jill Bialosky’s five poetry collections include the recent Asylum. She’s authored three novels, recently The Prize, and two memoirs, New York Times Best Seller History of a Suicide and Poetry Will Save Your Life. Her writing appears in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and more. She is an editor at W.W. Norton.
Major Jackson is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man. A recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as poetry editor of the Harvard Review.
Roger Reeves’s first book of poems is King Me from Copper Canyon Press. He has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a 2013 NEA Fellowship. His next book of poems, Best Barbarian, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.
Meghan O’Rourke is the editor of the Yale Review and the author of The Night Side: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye, as well as the poetry collections Sun In Days, Once, and Halflife. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other prizes.
Sandra Lim is the author of three books of poetry, The Curious Thing, The Wilderness, and Loveliest Grotesque. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Levis Reading Prize, and a Literature Award form the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at University of Massachusetts Lowell.
