An Evening of Poetry and Conversation

Join us for an evening with three writers whose works are inspired by elegy, correspondence, and divination. Dilruba Ahmed reading poems from Bring Now the Angels . Laynie Browne reading from a new collection of sonnets, Antediluvian Sonnets . Mary Cappello reading from Frost Will Come / essays from the bardo . A discussion will follow between the three writers + an audience Q&A. Stay for a wine and cheese reception to meet the writers and keep the conversation going. About the Writers Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels and Dhaka Dust , which won the Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review . In 2021, she joined the faculty at Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Laynie Browne’s recent poetry collections include Antediluvian Sonnets, Apprentice to a Breathing Hand, and Everyone & Her Resemblances . Her honors include a Pew Fellowship and the National Poetry Series Award. She teaches at University of Pennsylvania. Mary Cappello works in essay, literary nonfiction, memoir, and experimental prose, both on the page and in performance. She is the author of eight books, including her new memoir, Frost Will Come . A Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, she is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.