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23 Apr


Thursday, April 23, 7:00 p.m.
Brooklyn, NY

PSA Reading Series: Farid Matuk & Elizabeth Willis

Address

Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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In-person ($10) | Livestream ($5)
Free for members

Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice NeighborhoodThe Real Horse, and Moon Mirrored Indivisible. With artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Matuk created the book-arts project Redolent, recipient of the 2023 Anna Rabinowitz Prize from the Poetry Society of America. His work has been supported by the Headlands Center for the Arts, a Holloway Lectureship in the Practice of Poetry at UC Berkeley, and a 2024 USA Fellowship. Author photo by Roberto Guerra.

Elizabeth Willis is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Liontaming in America (New Directions, 2024), which was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her previous collection Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2014) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan, 2011); Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2008); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2004); The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1994); Second Law (Avenue B, 1993). She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

 

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