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The 15th Annual Jazz Poetry Festival at the City of Asylum

September 13 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

  • « PITT Poetry Series: Reading
  • The Furious Flower Anniversary »

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Date:
September 13
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • « PITT Poetry Series: Reading
  • The Furious Flower Anniversary »

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“Derricotte’s poems push readers and practitioners into the hard work of seeing with rigor, intelligence, and grace. Her intellect and imagination continue to forge new territory in the field of poetry, challenging what we think a poem might be and what we think it might do in the world.” —Dan Chiasson, Aracelis Girmay & A. Van Jordan, PEN/Voelcker Award Citation

“Honest, fine-honed, deceptively simple. . . deadly accurate, ‘more merciless to herself than history,’ Toi Derricotte’s poems are as unique as her point of view. And it is the specificity, the fine observation of that viewpoint…which makes it at once accessible and revelatory to readers, whatever their origins, whatever their preconceptions of the possibilities of poetry.”
—Marilyn Hacker

Upcoming Appearances

  1. The Furious Flower Anniversary

    September 28 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm EDT

  2. The Paul Engle Award

    October 3 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT

  3. Poets on Craft

    October 4 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT

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Toi Derricotte is represented by The Shipman Agency. Please contact them for booking information.

 

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