Poet Rachel Richardson and Author Lauren Markham to Present Their New Books
In "Smother: Poems", Richardson interrogates the impossible question, How should we raise our children in, and for, a world that is burning? But these are not poems of giving up. Rather, they sing their song of resistance made from the music that is available to us now.
In a dazzling synthesis of reporting, memoir, and essay, in "Immemorial", Markham reflects on the design and function of memorials, from the traditional to the speculative, in an attempt to reckon with the grief of climate catastrophe.
RACHEL RICHARDSON is the author of "Smother" and two other poetry collections, "Copperhead" and "Hundred-Year Wave". She is the co-founder of Left Margin LIT as well as a former Stegner and NEA Fellow. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Yale Review, APR, and elsewhere. In 2024 she was named an inaugural Artists-in-Fire Resident through the Confluence Lab, and has completed FFT2 wildland firefighter training. She teaches as Distinguished Visiting Writer in the MFA program at St. Mary's College, and lives in Berkeley.
LAUREN MARKHAM is the award-winning author of "Immemorial", "A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging", and "The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life". Her essays and reportage regularly appears in outlets such as the Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. She teaches writing and has spent over fifteen years working at the intersection of education and immigration. She is currently at work on a novel.
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