Cynthia Zarin Presents NEXT DAY: New and Selected Poems

The Study warmly invites you to a captivating evening with Cynthia Zarin, Senior Lecturer in English at Yale. Join us for a special reading from her latest poetry book, where she will also share the inspirations from her writing journey. Cynthia will also be signing copies and answering questions from the audience. Complimentary refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you there!

About NEXT DAY: New And Selected Poems

NEXT DAY features a curated selection of the exceptional work by one of this generation’s most distinguished poets and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner. Zarin is renowned for her elegant restraint, deep emotional insight, and sharp moral vision.

This volume opens with several new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among other publications, and offers a look at Zarin’s five carefully crafted collections, beginning with The Swordfish Tooth, published in 1989. Zarin, a poet in the line of Elizabeth Bishop, invites the reader to uncover human truths through a poem's shape and music, using vivid, intimate imagery and dynamic syntax. From the clarity of childhood memory to the maze of marriage and divorce, from her own consciousness—shaping landscapes from New York to Rome, to the shifting tides of history and the troubled conscience of a nation, her subject matter encompasses every facet of a woman’s life, capturing its passions, challenges, and profound immediacy—her most authentic and enduring focus.

About Cynthia Zarin

Cynthia Zarin, born in New York City and educated at Harvard and Columbia, is an acclaimed poet with five previous collections, including Orbit. She has also written a novel, Inverno, and two essay collections, Two Cities and An Enlarged Heart, along with several children's books. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, Zarin has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. She has won the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Currently, she teaches at Yale and resides in New York City.

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