One of America’s most celebrated living poets, Jorie Graham joins us to read from her latest collection, Killing Spree. Graham’s poems confront the defining crises of our time – from ecological collapse and political violence to technological acceleration to late-stage capitalist excesses. Killing Spree asks what poetry can still reveal amid crisis, and traces the struggle to remain fully human in a damaged world.
About the speaker:
Jorie Graham is the author of sixteen collections of poems. Her poetry has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize (UK), the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the International Nonino Prize, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She lives in Massachusetts and is Boylston Chair Emerita at Harvard University.
