Featured Reading: Frank Bidart
Award-winning poet Frank Bidart reads his work, including poems from his most recent collection, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013), followed by a Q&A with novelist William Giraldi.
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Award-winning poet Frank Bidart reads his work, including poems from his most recent collection, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013), followed by a Q&A with novelist William Giraldi.
Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers Magazine, leads a conversation with Edward Hirsch, Tayari Jones, Victor LaValle, Roxana Robinson, and Tiphanie Yanique about the personal, political, and professional reasons we choose to write while living in a culture, a family, or a community that doesn’t always value what we do.
Michael Szczerban, senior editor at Regan Arts, leads a discussion with agents Amy Berkower of Writers House, Eric Simonoff of the WME Book Department, Molly Friedrich of the Friedrich Literary Agency, and Meredith Kaffel of DeFiore & Company about how editors and agents work together on behalf of authors.
Bonnie Rose Marcus, director of Poets & Writers’ Readings & Workshops (East), leads a discussion about the many ways to build a life around writing. Panelists include Tina Chang, Rigoberto González, Karma Mayet Johnson, and Rich Vallar.