About this Event
Please welcome Sarah Kay and Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz to celebrate the releases of their respective books A Little Daylight Left and Against Vanishing!
This event is free and open to the public.
- Start time: 7:00 P.M.
- Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a signing line.
- Location: The second floor of BookPeople.
The authors will be signing and personalizing copies of their books after the speaking portion of the event.
- To get a book signed, a copy of the event book or an item of equal value must be purchased from BookPeople.
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About the books:
A Little Daylight Left
A vulnerable, searching collection about facing the beautiful & difficult parts of our humanness with compassion & wonder
“This is a book that will make you feel simultaneously alive and less alone.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times bestselling author of There’s Always This Year
from somewhere down a hallway of locked doors, a voice asks / What if you aren’t as bad as you suspect you are? / What if you’ll never be as good as you ache?
Lauded poet Sarah Kay brings us her long-awaited second full-length collection, a decade after her acclaimed debut No Matter the Wreckage. In A Little Daylight Left, Kay explores life’s most vulnerable moments of transition with courage, curiosity, joy & humor. Each poem invites readers to consider what it might look like to boldly face the hard things we so often run from—a heartbreak, an ailing loved one, the fear that comes with new beginnings & uncertain futures—& to celebrate what we hold dear. The result is a blueprint for discovering beauty in all that makes us human. With her signature wit & wisdom, Kay shows us how to navigate life bravely, with every single part of ourselves.
Against Vanishing
When life vanishes and returns, an acclaimed poet maps the territory between mother and daughter, loss and birth. Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's poetry has moved, inspired, and comforted readers worldwide for almost two decades across seven collections. Now, after a seven-year silence, this beloved poet returns with her most powerful work. Through the lens of her late mother's wisdom, Against Vanishing fearlessly explores life's pivotal moments—pregnancy, miscarriage, motherhood, grief, joy, and love—with radiant honesty, accessible humor, and masterful craft.
About the authors:
Sarah Kay is a writer, performer & educator from New York City. She is the author of four other books of poetry: B, No Matter the Wreckage, The Type & All Our Wild Wonder. Kay is the founder & co-director of Project VOICE, an organization that uses poetry to entertain, educate & empower students & educators in classrooms & communities worldwide.
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of seven previous collections of poetry—Dear Future Boyfriend; Hot Teen Slut; Working Class Represent; Oh, Terrible Youth; Everything is Everything; The Year of No Mistakes; and How To Love the Empty Air—which are all currently available on Write Bloody Publishing. She is also the author of two nonfiction books: Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam (Soft Skull Press, 2008), which Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature; and Dr Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine (Gotham Books, 2014), which was on the New York Times best seller list for three months. Recent awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the ArtsEDGE Writer Residency at the University of Pennsylvania, the Amy Clampitt House Residency, and the Hedgebrook Residency. When not on tour, she splits her time between Austin, TX, and Philadelphia, PA.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
BookPeople, 603 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, United States
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