coming of age

Rigoberto González reads from his memoir What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood (2018) and his newest collection of poetry The Book of Ruin (2019).

Dionne Irving reads the short story "An American Idea of Fun" from her second book, The Islands (2022). The story traces the impact of a summer spent in France across an American girl's life. Irving answers questions about the story, The Islands as a whole, and the writers and stories that have inspired her.

Anselm Berrigan delivers a talk on the positive role of influence in his life as writer. Berrigan describes growing up in a family of poets, finding his way to poetry in college, and the continuous shaping of his writing in conversation with other poets on and off the page.