Winshen Liu, Denton Loving, Christopher Martin & Alina Steafnescu: Observations...

The Observations panel presents poets who attend closely to the worlds within and around us. Winshen Liu reflects on grief and second-generation Taiwanese American identity. Denton Loving uses the natural world as both mirror and lens in the pursuit of a fully lived life. Christopher Martin turns toward the spiritual and natural, tracing how our bond with the living world shapes redemption and resilience. Alina Stefanescu probes the boundaries of myth, memory, and belief in poems that span Romania to Alabama. Together, their work affirms the power of observation to illuminate grief, place, history, and the fleeting revelations that shape our lives.

Following the panel, authors will proceed to signing tables to autograph books.

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About the Stage Host

Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.