Poets & Writers Theater

“Obsession is uncomfortable. It is almost always something that you would not choose to be obsessed with.” At an event at the New School, Ann Napolitano talks about the importance of paying attention to one’s obsessions and about the inspiration for her third novel, Dear Edward (Dial Press, 2020).

Daniel Borzutzky, who won the 2016 National Book Award in poetry for The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), reads poems from the collection at a reading for the finalists hosted by the New School. Borzutzky’s forthcoming poetry collection, Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), is a series of nineteen lyric poems.

“When a woman you love hits you / on the head with a book / you love, is that love?” At the New School, Brenda Shaughnessy reads from her poetry collection So Much Synth (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) for a Cave Canem event with poet Jamaal May.