Jenny Browne presented by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College

Name: Jenny Browne presented by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College
Start: 2026-02-24T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Wright Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01063

Schedule

Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Wright Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01063 | Northampton, MA

Jenny Browne
followed by conversation with Matt Donovan
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
Jenny Browne’s recent poems—from her forthcoming book I Am Trying to Love the Whole World (BOA 2026)—grapple after grace through incantations, linguistic veers, refutations of easy solace, and “trying to praise what left us gutted.” Browne’s work is fierce and tender all at once, and her poems brim with both loss and beauty as they bear down brilliantly on grief and the forever-failable human heart.
Followed by conversation with Matt Donovan. Books available for sale & signing follows. Free & open to the public. Livestream also available on the BDPC YouTube page.
Free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For disability access information or accommodation requests, call/email Jen Blackburn ([email protected], 413-585-4891). To request a sign language interpreter, email [email protected] at least two full weeks before the event.