Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems in Kazim Ali’s The Voice of Sheila Chandra bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to […]
Homie: Poems is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that […]
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 promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair […]
Billy Collins’ new collection, Whale Day and Other Poems, brings together more than fifty poems and showcases his deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, […]
Moderated by Joan Hilty, editorial director at Nickelodeon. Join Sophie Yanow (The Contradictions), Mike Hawthorne (Happiness Will Follow), and Kiku Hughes (Displacement) as they discuss stories that tackle the hard truths. Using the perceptive lenses of memory and time, they focus on what's really at the bottom of a lingering sense of displacement in what […]
Event starts Tuesday, November 17 @ 7 p.m. EST Part satiric comic strip storytelling, part academic lecture, “Red, White, Black and Blue: Highlighting America’s Racial Illiteracy” is a culmination of 25 years of Keith Knight's finest sociopolitical cartoons highlighting America's racial inequality. Join him for this interactive slideshow and follow along as he makes the […]
Event starts Tuesday, November 17 @ 6 p.m. EST In Just Us: An American Conversation, Claudia Rankine looks at what it takes to stay in the room together, breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. The Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University – also the author of six […]
Event starts Tuesday, November 17 @ 5 p.m. EST Long-ago drinking buddies, now married with adult children, meet up in a Dublin pub and spend a long, drawn-out night reconciling divergent versions of the past in Roddy Doyle's Love. The reunion is at times stifling, bogged down by the passage of time but also by […]
Join this live-stream virtual rhyme-writing session with Grammy-winning songwriter, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo! Kids can express themselves, rapping their own original creations over boom bap beats while gaining an understanding of slant rhymes, syllable manipulation, and bar counting. Since this is a LIVE event, you can even ask all the questions you need to make […]
Editores y autores de la escena literaria en castellano en los Estados Unidos nos ofrecen su visión y análisis, comparten las sinopsis -elevator pitch- de sus nuevas obras. Con las participaciones de: Oswaldo Estrada, narrador y ensayista de origen peruano, profesor de literatura latinoamericana. Presenta Incurables, relatos de dolencias y males (Ars Communis), obra que […]
Editores y autores de la escena literaria en castellano en los Estados Unidos nos ofrecen su visión y análisis, comparten las sinopsis -elevator pitch- de sus nuevas obras. Jesús Barquet presenta Manifiesto inacabado de la hegemonía, nomenclatura y nomenklatura cultural del nuevo cuño y coña (Bund Der Gerechten), Pablo Brescia presenta “Nuestras imposibilidades”, incluido en […]
Learn how to make a percussive instrument using things you have at home! All you need is: A paper towel roll Parchment paper Rubber bands Dried lentils/rice/pasta or beans- anything that can make a fun sound! Justin Roberts knows that inside every one of us there is a mini rocker waiting to come out. You […]