Kim Addonizio & Sandra Beasley - A Fundraiser for Poet Lore

Poet Lore and The Writer’s Center welcome renowned poets Kim Addonizio (Now We’re Getting Somewhere, Norton 2021) and Sandra Beasley (Made to Explode, Norton 2021) for an evening of readings and a discussion of their new collections. Hosted by Poet Lore Editor, Emily Holland. All donations will go to support Poet Lore as we celebrate our 132nd year of continuous publication, helping us to keep sharing the most striking contemporary poetry from America and around the world.
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Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her 2016 collection, Mortal Trash, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors. She lives in Oakland, California. kimaddonizio.com. She will also be leading a $25 POP-UP! Structure and Surprise.
Sandra Beasley is the author of three previous poetry collections-including I Was the Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize-and one memoir. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she lives in Washington, DC. sandrabeasley.com
About the Books
A dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between the poles of self and world. Kim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Outlander, semiotics, and more.
With lacerating honesty, technical mastery, and abiding compassion, Made to Explode offers volatile poems for our volatile times. In her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life in decisive, fearless, and precise poems that fuse intimacy and intensity. She probes memories of growing up in Virginia, in Thomas Jefferson’s shadow, where liberal affluence obscured and perpetuated racist aggressions, but where the poet was simultaneously steeped in the cultural traditions of the American South. Her home in Washington, DC, inspires prose poems documenting and critiquing our capital’s institutions and monuments.

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Kim Addonizio is interesting.