Please join us for our second virtual reading series of 2022 featuring poets from the magazine’s pages hosted by Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar. Audience questions will follow individual readings. Katie Farris’s work appears in American Poetry Review, Granta, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the …
Join us for the first event of Tree Reading Series for 2022-2023 season featuring readers Natalie Eilbert and Alycia Pirmohamed. Natalie Eilbert is the author of Swan Feast (2015) and Indictus (2018). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review and elsewhere. A 2021-22 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, her collection Overland …
Join Writers for Democratic Action (WDA) on Thursday, September 29th at 2 pm EST for a special online event with Margaret Atwood in conversation with Rachel DeWoskin, as a part of WDA’s Book the Vote Democracy Book Club. They will be discussing Atwood’s Burning Questions, and the intersections between literature and …
Join us as we explore the influential books and writers who defined genres and captivated readers for decades. Each session of The Re-Read features a contemporary writer discussing a favourite book or author, to offer their insight as an author and share their joy as a reader. In this session, …
The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry is an annual book contest sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at California State University, Fresno. This contest — open to any poet writing in English (except current or former students or faculty of Fresno State) — offers a $2,000 prize and publication by Anhinga …
Audience favourite Dionne Brand, award-winning Canadian author and Toronto’s 3rd Poet Laureate, presents her latest book, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems. Comprised of intense new work and eight prior volumes – originally published between 1982 and 2010 – the collection captures the intimacies and disillusionments of wars and revolutions so profoundly that …