About this Event
Please join us for a poetry reading celebrating by Corey Van Landingham! The author will be reading with Richie Hofmann.
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A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham.
Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre: "Reader, I married him." Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in Reader, I both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker--tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover--finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in Jane Eyre, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, Reader, I traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa.
Corey Van Landingham is the author of three books of poetry, including Reader, I (Sarabande Books, 2024). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Boston Review, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.
Richie Hofmann is the author of two books of poems, (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) and (Alice James Books, 2015). His poetry appears recently in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review, and has been honored with the Ruth Lilly and Wallace Stegner fellowships. He teaches at the University of Chicago.
Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email [email protected] by no later than 14 days before the event. For other questions or access needs, please email [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Women & Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States
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