Tonight: Words Like Blades
Inaugural online event feat. Mary Helen Callier, Daniel Ruiz, and Diane Seuss
It is a delight to invite you all a Zoom event, happening this evening, featuring three of my favorite poets and people: Mary Helen Callier (When the Horses, Alice James Books, 2025), Daniel Ruiz, (Reality Checkmate, Four Way Books, 2025, and Diane Seuss (Modern Poetry, Graywolf Press, 2024). This event will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2025, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm eastern time (ET). The three poets will read from their recent work, followed by a Q&A. I will host along with Jennifer Franklin, Nathan McClain, and Ren Wilding.
Register for the event for free here. All registrants will be entered into a raffle to win copies of our readers' books.
About the series: During this dark time for the country & the world, poets and scholars Jennifer Franklin, Jane Huffman, Nathan McClain, and Ren Wilding have come together with the goal to gather once a month to listen to poets read their new work as an act of refuge and an act of resistance. Our series is founded on James Baldwin's belief that, "You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... If you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." The four curators plan to pair a diverse group of established poets & emerging poets (with new or recent collections) and, when possible, focus on Mentors and Mentees reading together to calm, center, and inspire activism and positive change. At its core, this series will focus on inclusivity and celebrating connections.
Hope to see you there!
More soon,
Jane