Come for an evening of readings and celebration in honor of the anthology, Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English.

Readers will include:

Sarah Arvio
Mary Baine Campbell
Beth Ann Fennelly
Joy Katz
Phillis Levin
Elizabeth Macklin
Katha Pollitt
Eva Salzman
Mary Stewart Hammond

Please join A Bolha Editora and Nightboat Books to celebrate the publication of The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst, translated by Nathanaël in collaboration with Rachel Gontijo Araújo, with a forward by John Keene

The first English-language translation by the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004).

What is transfeminism? How does it redefine genre and gender poetics?

Join Belladonna* for Transfeminism in Literature, a reading and
discussion investigating transfeminist theory in contemporary literature.

Featuring:
Poets Trish Salah, Tim Trace Peterson and critics and scholars Nicholas Birns and TL Cowan.

Poet Joy Ladin will moderate the discussion.

Cecilia Vicuña, co-editor of The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, introduces an evening of acclaimed poets reading 500 years of Latin America poetry, from the oral poetries of the Guaraní and Tzotzil women to César Vallejo and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

In a discussion of the improvisational text, Berkeley poet Kit Robinson draws on his recent work as well as resonant writings by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye, the author and editor of over 20 volumes, leads a round table session for adults that explores how poetry can help us navigate the different phases of our lives—from youth to old age—while examining such issues as absence and presence, loss and discovery. Nye will share her own work about the death of her father and her experience editing an anthology of poems by young poets.

Chicago writer Angela Jackson joins poet Patricia Spears Jones for a reading and conversation about their respective writings, including Jackson’s new novel Where I Must Go.

In this workshop of reading, writing and discussing poems about our lives, Naomi Shihab Nye, author of the recent young-adult poetry collection Honeybee, explores how poetry functions as the honey of the hive.

Join Richard Lewis and members of the Touchstone Center Theatre Ensemble as they perform And So It Was Day, a retelling of an ancient Hawaiian chant about the emergence of life on earth and its bountiful first day. With poems and artwork, each child will create a book of days that celebrates the music and magic of daylight.

In celebration of his 70th birthday and the publication of his new book, Mozart’s Third Brain, the preeminent Swedish poet Göran Sonnevi makes a rare appearance with his English-language translator, poet Rika Lesser.