Katie Ford will read from her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Beginning in the cramped space of selfhood―in the bedroom, cluttered with doubts, and in the throes of marital loss―these poems edge toward the clarity of “what I can know and admit to knowing.” An extraordinary sequence at the heart of this book taps into the radical power of the sonnet form, bending it into a kind of metaphysical and psychological outcry. “[Ford is] one of the most important American poets at work today.”—D...

Biographer Mike Lankford will read from and talk about Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, which was a Wall Street Journal 2017 Book of the Year. "A creative biography of the great Renaissance artist and inventor, taking the bare factual outline we have of da Vinci's life and and filling it in with 15th-century Italy's society, culture and history; the people and personalities who surrounded da Vinci; and the constancies of human nature."—Oregonian

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Writers’ Workshop graduates Abby Geni and Frances de Pontes Peebles will read from their new novels.

Geni will read from her novel, The Wildlands. "Geni's fascinat[ed] with the borders between human and animal… [and she] continues to create works of art with perfect voices that are simultaneously thrillers and meditations on nature. It is an incredible trick." —Kirkus Reviews

Geni is the author of The Lightkeepers and The Last Animal. She lives in Chicago.

De Pontes Peebles will read from her...

Please join us for a special event at The Englert Theater, featuring Jacqueline Woodson in conversation with Alexia Arthurs. Woodson will be reading from and discussing her two new books for middle grade and young readers, Harbor Me and The Day You Begin, illustrated by Rafael López. Woodson and Arthur will discuss timely issues that affect childrens' lives and education, noting the power literature has to keep them hopeful in stressful times.

Jacqueline Woodson is the National Ambassador for...