Sophie Cabot Black Poetry Reading
Please join us to celebrate the new poetry collection Geometry of the Restless Herd (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) by acclaimed poet Sophie Cabot Black. Sophie will read several poems from the collection, and books will be on sale following the reading.
Sophie Cabot Black has four poetry collections: The Misunderstanding of Nature, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book Award, The Descent, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award, and The Exchange which received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. NPR labels her a “poet’s poet” and Billy Collins calls her voice “fresh and daring”. Her newest collection,Geometry of the Restless Herd, is out in May of 2024. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.
The evening will be hosted by poet and translator Nidia Hernandez and Jennifer Barber, the current poet laureate of Brookline, and is co-sponsored by the New England Poetry Club and the Brookline Commission for the Arts.
This event is generously sponsored by
the Friends of the Brookline Public Library.
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Coolidge Corner
31 Pleasant Street, Brookline, MA 02446Accessibility
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