Erin Carlyle, Sarah Gordon, Didi Jackson & Stephanie Niu: Meditations...
Sat, Oct 04
|Marriott Hotel, Swanton Amphitheatre
Hosted by Maya Marshall, poets trace pathways through grief, memory, and planetary crisis, revealing how language can guide us toward transformation.
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Marriott Hotel, Swanton Amphitheatre, 130 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30030, USA
About
The Meditations... panel gathers poets who look unflinchingly at life’s most difficult truths. Through elegy, myth, and lyric, Erin Carlyle, Sarah Gordon, Didi Jackson, and Stephanie Niu trace pathways through grief, poetry as both a witness and a guide.
Following the panel, authors will proceed to signing tables to autograph books.
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About the Stage Host
Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor. She is the author of All the Blood Involved in Love (2022) and the chapbook Secondhand (2016), and winner of the 2024 Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University. Marshall co-founded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision, and serves as editor-at-large for Haymarket Books and program consultant for the Writing Freedom Fellowship. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Cave Canem, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and Emory University. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in Prose for the People (Penguin Random House, 2025), American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Boston Review, Poets.org, Split This Rock, and Best New Poets. She is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University and splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Decatur, Georgia.