Rachel Eliza Griffiths in The Green Room at the Honolulu Museum of Art

The Merwin Conservancy will present a reading and talk with award-winning poet, visual artist, and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths in partnership with the Honolulu Museum of Art. This program is part of The Merwin Conservancy’s series of popular arts and ecology literary events known as The Green Room.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Griffiths is also a recipient of fellowships from many organizations, including Civitella Ranieri, Kimbilio, Cave Canem Foundation, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, Best American Poetry, and other publications. Her debut novel, Promise, was a Kirkus Reviews and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year. Griffiths' debut memoir, The Flower Bearers (Random House), is forthcoming in January. She lives in New York City.

Support our public programming as a Green Room Patron or Host. As a thank you for your donation of $250 per person as a Green Room Patron, or $500 per person as a Green Room Host, we’ll welcome you at a 5:30pm VIP reception, before the talk starts at 6:30 pm. We will also reserve your event tickets and set aside a copy of Rachel Eliza Griffith's most recent book, arrange priority seating, and acknowledge your contribution at the event and on our website. Space is limited.

Parking is available behind the Honolulu Museum of Art School

Address: 1111 Victoria Street, Honolulu, HI 96814 (entrances on Beretania and Young

streets)

Card only for parking payment.

Please enter the museum through the front entrance on 900 S. Beretania Street.

Parking Rates

$3 per hour or $8 all-day

Seating begins 6:00pm, Program begins 6:30pm.

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