A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
Moderated by Campbell McGrath, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. In Summer Snow: New Poems, his first collection of poems since 2010, Robert Hass
Panel: The Fight for Justice & Truth
Grades 9 – 12 Introduced by the Miami-Dade County Teen Court. Punching the Air, a novel-in-verse by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, tells the story
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
Grades 3 – 7 Introduced by Cierra Bragan, Miami Mom Collective Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice is a collection of poems by Mahogany
Jan Beatty: A Reading from The Body Wars: Poems
Live Q&A: Sunday, November 22 @ 1:00 p.m. What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself,
The Hero’s Journey: Two Poets on Reconfiguring the Lyric
The poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey’s much anticipated You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love follow an unnamed protagonist on her multidimensional,
Two Poets on Curiosities and Consciousness
Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson’s collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum, Kimiko Hahn’s 10th collection, Foreign Bodies, investigates the grip
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song is a literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250
Carol Frost: A Reading From Alias City
There is something astonishing about the ardor with which Carol Frost articulates and sings the sorrows of our disappearing in her newest poetry collection, Alias
Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing
Live Q&A: Friday, November 20 @ 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. EST The 21st century has brought unprecedented evidence of the prevalence of sexual abuse and
Jane Hirshfield: A Reading From Ledger: Poems
Live: Friday, November 20 @ 5:00 p.m. EST with Q&A immediately following Ledger: Poem‘s pages hold the most important and masterly work yet by Jane
2019 National Poetry Series Winners
Special introduction by Daniel Halpern, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and
A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
Joy Harjo on When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry is a landmark