Taije Silverman & Maya Pindyck: Philly Book Launch for Philly Poets!

Taije Silverman and Maya Pindyck read from their new poetry books, Now You Can Join

the Others (LSU Press, 2022) and Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023), both

collections exploring how history infiltrates and resists cultural belonging.

With very different voices, both books investigate how we lay and give up claim to

identities shaped by sexism, feminism, whiteness, racism, motherhood, the Holocaust,

Israel and Palestine, and myth.

Friday, February 3rd 6pm at A Novel Idea on Passyunk

Masks optional

*Suggested $5 Donation

About the Authors

Maya Pindyck's third book of poems, Impossible Belonging, won the 2021 Philip Levine

Prize for Poetry and was published by Anhinga Press in 2023. Previous books include

Emoticoncert (Four Way Books), Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press), winner of

the Many Voices Project Award, and A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (Bloomsbury,

2022), which she co-authored with Ruth Vinz. She teaches and directs the Writing

program at Moore College of Art & Design.

Taije Silverman's second collection, Now You Can Join the Others, was published by

LSU Press this fall. Her first book, Houses Are Fields, was published in 2009, and her

translated Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli was published by Princeton University

Press in 2019. Honors include a Fulbright Fellowship, the Emory University Poetry

Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and poems in the Best American Poetry series. She

teaches poetry and translation at Penn.

Host or Publisher A Novel Idea on Passyunk