Experience the newest poetry collections from Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe through poems that capture visions of the pastoral and glimpses of the quotidian. In Cabot Black’s Geometry of the Restless Herd (Copper Canyon, 2024), poems about sheep herding examine the connection between people, land, animals, and power. Howe’s New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2024), collates poems from her four previous collections, creating a sweeping and intimate portrait of her body of work. The evening’s readings and conversation between the artists will reveal two extraordinary takes on the human and the spiritual.

Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room.

About the Poets:

Sophie Cabot Black has four poetry collections: The Misunderstanding of Nature (Graywolf 1994), The Descent (Graywolf, 2004), The Exchange (Graywolf, 2013), and Geometry of the Restless Herd. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.

Marie Howe is the author New and Selected Poems, which includes poems from her four previous books. From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.