Taije Silverman & Maya Pindyck: Philly Book Launch for Philly Poets! (In-Person)
Schedule
Fri Feb 03 2023 at 06:00 pm
Location
A Novel Idea on Passyunk | Philadelphia, PA
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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.
Register now at anovelideaphilly.com/events!
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Where is it happening?
A Novel Idea on Passyunk, 1726 E Passyunk Avenue,Philadelphia,PA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
