Reading

Join Jennifer Franklin, Sophia Bannister, and Kristie Frederick Daugherty for the launch reading of Invisible Strings: 113 poets respond to the songs of Taylor Swift, on its publicatin date! Already committed to read their poem from the anthology: Diane Seuss, Major Jackson, Rae Armantrout, Matt Abbott, Lisa Fay Coutley, John Gallaher, Jill Bialosky, J.D. lsip, Kerry Neville, Dean Rader, Jane Hirshfield, Jeannine Ouellette, Dustin Brookshire, Kim Addonizio, Robin Behn, January Gill O’Neil, Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Stephanie Burt, Tennison Black, Gustavo Hernandez, Samiya Bashir, Victoria Redel, […]

Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction has been published in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Story, and ZYZZYVA. His nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, The Sun, The Millions, Salon, Real Simple, The Believer, and Electric Literature. Kristopher is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at SUNY […]

Join Jennifer Franklin & Sophia Bannister as they launch the 2025 reading series with new poetry by Alicia Ostriker, Joan Larkin, & Dzvinia Orlowsky. Each of the poets will read for 20 minutes from their new books and there will be a Q&A with audience questions. Alicia Ostriker has published 19 collections of poetry, been twice nominated for the National Book Award, and has twice received the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, among other honors.   Her work has appeared […]

Join Jennifer Franklin & Sophia Bannister as they welcome Tiana Clark, Shanta Lee, and Ruben Quesada, as they read from their new collections! Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection,Scorched Earth (Simon & Schuster, March 5, 2025); I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize: and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery […]

Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She is the author of The Ghost Wife, winner of the 2017 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She was also a 2019–20 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and a 2017–2019 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently she co-organizes the Undocupoets, which promotes the work of undocumented poets and raises consciousness about the structural barriers that […]