Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith | Authors at the Library

Name: Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith | Authors at the Library
Start: 2025-09-09T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-09T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43215

Schedule

Tue Sep 09 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43215 | Columbus, OH

*Please note: this is a paid, ticketed event in partnership with Prologue Bookshop. Your ticket includes a copy of "The People's Project" to be picked up at the event.*
Join Saeed Jones & Maggie Smith to discuss their new book, The People's Project.
The People's Project is a liberatory anthology of twenty-six writers—a community in book form—charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones.
Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith’s conversations in the wake of the 2024 election, this is a collection of poems, essays, and visual art on what we—individually and collectively—can hold onto, and what we can work towards.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Saeed Jones is the author of Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. The poetry collection was also a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as awards from Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle in 2015. Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Lewisville, Texas. He earned a BA at Western Kentucky University and an MFA at Rutgers University-Newark. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is on Bluesky @TheFerocity.
Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including A Suit or a Suitcase, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.
📍 Main Library (96 Grant Ave.)
⏰ Tuesday, Sept. 6 from 6–7 p.m.