Join McNally Jackson Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow. RSVP Required.

Shamar Hill, a Black and Jewish writer, is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center. He has been published in the American Poetry Review, the Missouri Review, Washington Square Review, and Poetry Northwest, among others. He is working on his memoir, In Defiance of All True Things, and a poetry collection, Photographs of an Imagined Childhood.

Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012) is a Haitian-born award-winning poet, author, educator, speaker, publisher and social advocate. He has taught, performed, and lectured at schools, universities, festivals and serves as a keynote speaker on topics such as social justice, mental health reform, the immigrant experience, and racial disparities. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020), winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. He is also Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder/Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company, a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization.

Martha Collins recently published her eleventh collection of poetry, Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022), and her fifth volume of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, Dreaming the Mountain, poems by Tue Sy (Milkweed, 2023). Her tenth book of poems, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; earlier books, which have won several awards, include three focusing on race and racism (Admit One: An American Scrapbook, White Papers, Blue Front). Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and served for ten years as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin.