Award-winning poet A. Van Jordan, author of five poetry collections including M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A and the forthcoming When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again (W.W. Norton, June 2023), and novelist Emma Cline, author of The Girls and the forthcoming book The Guest (May 2023), read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, hosted by the Program in Creative Writing.

The reading is free and open to the public. No tickets or advance registration required.

About the Authors

Award-winning poet A. Van Jordan is the author of four collections, most recently The Cineaste (W.W. Norton, 2013). His other books include Quantum Lyrics (W.W. Norton, 2007), M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (W.W. Norton, 2005), which was listed as one of the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times, and Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001), which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a United States Artist Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award in Poetry. His next book is When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again, to be published by Norton in June 2023.

Emma Cline is the author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy, and The Guest, forthcoming in May 2023. The winner of the Plimpton Prize and an O. Henry Award, Cline was also named one of Granta‘s Best Young American Novelists.