Saturday, February 22 at 6:30 join us at Book Beat for a poetry reading featuring Anne Carson, Dunya Mikhail, Cameron McLeod Martin, Monica Rico, and Stephanie Glazier.
Sunday, February 22 from 6-9 pm, Carson will also be reading at Book Suey in Hamtramck (10345 Joseph Campau Ave.) alongside Nandi Comer, Emily Roll, Catharine Batsios, Christine Kanownik.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Registration is available on Eventbrite.
These two events are brought to you by Book Beat, Book Suey, and the monthly reading series FIELD TRIP. For more information, contact Book Beat or visit https://bit.ly/AnneCarsonDET.
Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, professor of classics, and translator. “In the small world of people who keep up with contemporary poetry,” wrote Daphne Merkin in the New York Times Book Review, Carson “has been cutting a large swath, inciting both envy and admiration.” Carson has gained both critical accolades and a wide readership over the course of her “unclassifiable” publishing career. In addition to her many highly-regarded translations of classical writers such as Sappho and Euripides, and her triptych rendering of An Oresteia (2009), she has published poems, essays, libretti, prose criticism, and verse novels that often cross genres. Carson’s works include Autobiography of Red (1999) Red Doc> (2013), Decreation (2006), Nox (2010), Float (2016), Wrong Norma (2024), and others. Her honors and awards are many, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. She has also received the Lannan Literary Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Read a recent interview with Carson in The Paris Review.
Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is the author of the poetry collections The War Works Hard (shortlisted for the International Griffon Poetry Prize), Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (winner of the Arab American Book Award), The Iraqi Nights (winner of the Poetry Magazine Translation Award), In Her Feminine Sign (chosen as one of the ten best poetry books of 2019 by The New York Public Library), Tablets: Secrets of the Clay (a section of it adopted by UNESCO as a sticker.) Her nonfiction book The Beekeeper was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her debut novel, The Bird Tattoo, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Mikhail is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, as well as fellowships from the United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation.
Monica Rico is a CantoMundo Fellow and Macondista who grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. She is an MFA graduate of the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, winner of a Hopwood Graduate Poetry Award, a 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry finalist, and 2021 winner of the Levis Prize in Poetry, selected by Kaveh Akbar. Monica is Program Manager & Editor-in-Chief for the Bear River Writers’ Conference. She is the author of the poetry collection, Pinion.
Stephanie Glazier’s manuscript Of Fish & Country was a finalist in the 2024 National Poetry Series, the 2024 Airlie Prize, the 2021 Milkweed Ballard Spahr Prize, the 2020 Perugia Press Prize and a semi-finalist in the 2022 Persea Lexi Rudnitsky Prize. Her poems and critical prose have appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review and Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, and in Reading and Writing Experimental Texts: Critical Innovations (Palgrave 2018). She has been a Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry and holds an MFA from Antioch University LA. She served as the poetry editor of Gertrude until the sunset of the journal in 2021.
She lives and works in Detroit.
Cameron McLeod Martin (they/them) is an essayist and poet.
They hold an MFA from the University of Idaho and their work has appeared in Fence, Black Warrior Review, The Journal, and elsewhere.
They currently live in Clawson, MI.