About this Event
We're delighted to host poets Monica Ferrell, Devon Walker-Figueroa, and Morgan Parker at H&H Books on Tuesday, May 12 at 7 PM. Monica, Devon, and Morgan will each present a short reading and discuss their work together. A Q&A and book signing will follow their discussion.
Monica’s new poetry collection, The Future, recently released in March 2026, will be available for purchase, as well as books by Devon (Lazarus Species) and Morgan (Magical Negro, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce).
In their starred review of The Future, Publishers Weekly raved, “In this long-anticipated follow-up to 2008’s Beasts for the Chase, Ferrell renders familiar literary tropes suddenly new, surprising, and dangerous again...'astonishingly exact' rules of decorum and décor give rise to boredom and, in the end, self-destructive impulses."
Registration is free or PWYC and highly recommended! An attendance count helps us organize our space and plan even more events for our community.
Questions? Email [email protected].
About the Poets:
is the author of a novel and three books of poetry, including the The Future (2026); You Darling Thing (2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Believer Book Award in Poetry; and Beasts for the Chase (2008), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and a finalist for the Asian American Writers Workshop Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, American Poetry Review, A Public Space, Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Baffler, The Yale Review, and Poem-a-Day, and have been widely anthologized, most recently in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Born in New Delhi, she lives in Vermont.
grew up in Kings Valley, a ghost town in the Oregon Coast Range, and received her education from Chemeketa Community College, Cornell University, Bennington College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and New York University, where she was the Jill Davis Fellow in fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Zyzzyva, and her debut collection of poems, Philomath, was selected by Sally Keith for the National Poetry Series, won the Levis Reading Prize, and was the first collection of poems to be a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. Walker-Figueroa has worked as a professional ballet and modern dancer, research assistant, classical harpist, bartender, literary editor, and creative writing instructor and is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the essay collection You Get What You Pay For, the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Head & The Hand Books, 2230 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 12.51
