Poetry Reading Session 5 with Bettina Judd, M. Nzadi Keita, Saretta Morgan & Valerie A. Smith

Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Location: The Emory University Poetry Stage in the Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore St, Decatur, GA 30030

Join us for a Poetry Reading with Bettina Judd, M. Nzadi Keita, Saretta Morgan & Valerie A. Smith. The reading will be held on Saturday, October 5th at 4:00 PM on the Emory University Poetry Stage in the Decatur Library. Following the reading, authors will proceed to signing tables to autograph books.

Purchase your book from Charis Books via this link, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the festival.

About the Session Host 

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies.