T214.
The Poetry of Capital: A Reading from a New, Multigenre Anthology
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
This reading will feature contributors to The Poetry of Capital, a diverse new anthology in which forty-four poets explore the contemporary American relationship to money, tackling subjects from global economic crises to local tag sales, from the subversive effects of dark money on politics to the freedom granted by summer jobs. Alongside the poems, the volume includes original essays about how capital shapes us and our American experience. Poets will share selections from both their poems and essays.
Participants
Clare Rossini has published three collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Lingo. Her poems and essays have been published and anthologized widely, including twice in Best American Poetry, and have been featured on NPR and the BBC. She is Artist in Residence at Trinity College in Hartford.
Mark Doty's nine books of poems—most recently, Deep Lane—have received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. A new prose study of Walt Whitman is forthcoming. He is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University.
Afaa M. Weaver is a poet, playwright, editor, and translator. Spirit Boxing is his fifteenth poetry collection. His awards include four Pushcarts, an NEA, a Fulbright, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Phillis Wheatley Award, a Guggenheim, and the Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award.
Benjamin S. Grossberg’s books include My Husband Would, Space Traveler, and Sweet Core Orchard, winner of the 2008 Tampa Review Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. He directs the creative writing program at the University of Hartford.
Sheyl Luna's Magnificent Errors received the Ernest Sandeen Prize and will be published in February 2022. Pity the Drowned Horses received the Andres Montoya Prize. Seven was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.
