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In this event hosted by the Free Library of Philadelphia, Morgan Parker discusses her debut essay collection, You Get What You Pay For (One World, 2024), and the challenges of writing about mental health in a conversation with Shantrelle Lewis. Parker’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“Scientists say the average human/ life gets three months longer every year. / By this math, death will be optional,” reads Nicole Sealey from her poem “The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born,” which appears in her collection Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017), in this reading with Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro (Tin House, 2019), at Scripps College.
Morgan Parker reads a selection of poems including “Heaven Be a Xanax,” “Hottentot Venus,” and “Slouching Toward Beyoncé” from her second poetry collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House Books, 2017), with musical accompaniment by David Cieri. Parker’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“The body is a person.” In this video from BRIC TV, Morgan Parker reads her poems and discusses her life as a young writer. Her second collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, is forthcoming from Tin House Books in February.
Morgan Parker reads her poem "Black Woman With Chicken" for Pen Pal Poets. Her debut collection, Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night (Switchback Books, 2015), was selected for the 2013 Gatewood Prize, and her second collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, is forthcoming from Tin House Books in February 2017. Parker is one of the debut poets featured in "Fractures Through Time" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
