Kazim Ali, Blas Falconer, Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, more

24 JUNE 2021 — thursday

Community of Writers presents the 2021 Benefit Poetry Reading, featuring poets Kazim Ali, The Voice of Sheila Chandra, Blas Falconer, Forgive the Body This Failure, Forrest Gander, Be With, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry), Robert Hass, The Apple Trees at Olema, Time and Materials, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award), Brenda Hillman. Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire, winner of the 2014 Griffin International Poetry Prize, Sharon Olds, Arias, Stag's Leap, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Evie Shockley, the new black, semiautomatic, both winners of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, emceed by poet Ananda Lima, Mother/land; this event benefits the Community of Writers' scholarship fund, event free, donations welcome, online via Zoom, 5:30 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: communityofwriters.org/events/event/2021-benefit-poetry-reading)