Moira Egan and Allison Wilkins: THE FURIES

Join us at Bird in Hand for an evening of powerful poetry as Moira Egan and Allison Wilkins Bakken share work from their latest collections.

Allison Wilkins' manuscript House of Broken Tables won the 2025 Donna Wolf Palacio Poetry Prize, and Moira Egan's The Furies comes out on the date of this event! Highlighting the value of solidarity and collective strength among women, they bring to life women in myths from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to the female characters of The Odyssey. Egan deploys exuberant wordplay and traditional poetic forms to subvert the patriarchal canon. At the heart of the book is a profound exploration of voice, not least the ongoing silencing of women’s voices: she blends righteous anger with grief, ultimately finding hope in the transformative power of language.

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Moira Egan has published five books of poetry in the United States and four in Italy, including Amore e morte, a bilingual collection of new and selected poems. Her work has been featured in journals and anthologies on four continents. Also a prize-winning translator, she lives in Rome with her husband, Damiano Abeni.

Allison Wilkins is the author of Girl Who (2014) and her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Sierra Magazine, Hayden's Ferry Review, Superstition Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Pennsylvania and each summer serves as assistant director for Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos. She is the recipient of the 2025 Donna Wolf Palacio Poetry Prize for her manuscript “House of Broken Tables.”

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