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22 May


Thursday, May 22, 7:00 PM
Brooklyn, NY

PSA Reading Series: Arthur Sze & Mónica de la Torre

Address

Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Registration required:
Tickets $10/ Free for Members
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Mónica de la Torre’s seven poetry books include Pause the Document (forthcoming from Nightboat in March 2025), Repetition Nineteen, The Happy End / All Welcome and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. She co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 and is the recipient of a 2022 Creative Capital grant and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry. She teaches at Brooklyn College. Author photo by Nat Ward.

Arthur Sze is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Into the Hush (Copper Canyon Press, 2025); The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems, which was selected for a 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award; and Sight Lines, which received the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. He has also published The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2025) and The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). His honors include the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Jackson Poetry Prize. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Author photo by Mariana Cook.

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