Heather Christle, Brittny Ray Crowell & Steven Duong: Ruminations...
Sat, Oct 04
|Marriott Hotel, Swanton Amphitheatre
From family legacies to ecological collapse, these poets linger in memory and aftermath, finding wonder in what endures. Hosted by Maya Marshall.
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
Marriott Hotel, Swanton Amphitheatre, 130 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30030, USA
About
The Ruminations... panel gathers poets whose work lingers in the space between memory and possibility. Heather Christle, Brittny Ray Crowell, and Steven Duong write of family legacies, ecological collapse, displacement, and the odd beauty of daily life. With tenderness, wit, and visionary language, their poems turn archives, ruptures, and aftermaths into luminous meditations on what it means to live — and keep living — in a world that is always ending and beginning again.
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.