Live Poetry Readings that are always fun, often funny, & occasionally philosophical as hell
+ Q&A with your favorite poets
You’re Invited!
Tune in to Session #4 on TUES, SEP 24 @ 7 PM EST with
Major Jackson & Kinsale Drake.
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Major Jackson is the award-winning author of six poetry collections including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET (University of Georgia Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. She is the director of NDN Girls Book Club, a literary nonprofit for Indigenous peoples.
Session #3…
…took place on Aug 8, 2024.
Rae Armantrout and Francis de Lima delighted us with fantastic & funny poems, and we asked them a few questions. You can watch the reading below or here.
Rae Armantrout is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Critics Circle Award (for Versed, Wesleyan 2010). Her most recent book is Finalists (Wesleyan 2022). Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her other books with Wesleyan include Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, and Money Shot. A new book, Go Figure, and a chapbook, Notice, are forthcoming in 2024.
Francis de Lima is a Finnish-Brazilian poet and translator, currently living in the UK. They are completing their undergrad at Royal Holloway, focusing on the intersections between class, ecology, and poetry. They’ve collaborated extensively, mainly with Finnish underground artists, on projects like art books, albums, and performances at venues ranging from concert halls to backyards.
Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, both published by BOA Editions. He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.
Molly Zhu is a Chinese-American poet and attorney. Her work appears in Hobart Pulp, the Ghost City Press, and Bodega Magazine, among others. The poetry editor of Passengers Journal, she is the winner of the 2021 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize for her debut chapbook, Asian American Translations (Cordella Press).
Session #1…
…took place on April 18, 2024.
We heard new poems read by Bob Hicok and Leigh Chadwick as well as bothered them with a few questions. You can watch it here.
Bob Hicok is the author of Water Look Away (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). He has received a Guggenheim, two NEA Fellowships, the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, nine Pushcart Prizes, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in nine volumes of the Best American Poetry.
Leigh Chadwick is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Your Favorite Poet (Malarkey Books, 2022) and Sophomore Slump (Malarkey Books, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, Passages North, Identity Theory, and Pithead Chapel, among others. She is currently at work on a YA romance novel set around the Donner Party.