About this Event
Join us for an evening with poets Moira Egan and Jennifer A Sutherland, reading from and conversing about their new books.
About The Furies:
In The Furies, Moira Egan offers fierce feminist reimaginings of familiar myths and narratives, from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to the female characters of The Odyssey, in verse that highlights the value of solidarity and collective strength among women. With dazzling erudition and playful ingenuity, she deploys exuberant wordplay and traditional poetic forms to subvert the patriarchal canon. At the heart of the book is a profound exploration of voice, not least the ongoing silencing of women’s voices: Egan blends righteous anger with grief, ultimately finding hope in the transformative power of language.
About House of Myth and Necessity:
Jennifer A Sutherland’s second poetry collection, House of Myth and Necessity, throws open the shutters of language as it is built around the concepts of girlhood, marriage, myth, and law. In the company of the figure of Euripedes’ Alcestis, the poems move through houses of memory, domestic violence and divorce, cross examinations, and the Fibonacci sequence. As the collection’s narrative considers love and suburban scenes, Alcestis — posed as an affidavit, as a gothic disposition on an autumn afternoon, as modern love, as elegant proof, as beads on an abacus string — changes, the idea of her walking across a stage, speaking her lines. It is then the reader discovers that they have also changed through the poems’ deliberations, questionings, and the human need to stand before a court or audience and speak the self’s story. A brilliant voice in American poetry, Sutherland, poet and attorney, draws her reader into the retelling of a woman’s difficult moral choice in myth, astounding in both its timelessness and its originality.
About the Poets:
Moira Egan is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently The Furies (LSU Press, 2025) and Amore e morte (a bilingual new & selected poems, Rome: Edizioni Tlon, 2022). Her poems, essays, and translations have been published in journals and anthologies on four continents. In 2023, she won the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets for her translations of the poetry of Giorgiomaria Cornelio. She lives in Rome with Damiano Abeni, her partner in life as well as in translation.
Read "Ghazal: Sea" by Moira Egan.
Jennifer A Sutherland is the author of House of Myth and Necessity and Bullet Points: A Lyric, finalist for Foreword Indies poetry Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. Natalie Shapero writes of her work that it is "relentless, harrowing, and tremendously smart." Jennifer's poems and essays have appeared or will soon appear in Plume, Arcturus (Chicago Review of Books), Chicago Quarterly, Birmingham Poetry Review, EPOCH, Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA at Hollins University and she lives and works in Baltimore. Find her at JenniferASutherland.com.
Read "Alcestis as a Trial, an Ekstasis, a Whereas, or a Problem" by Jennifer A Sutherland.
About the Program:
- Doors will open to registered attendees at 5:30 pm.
- A local bookseller will be on-site and have books available for purchase.
- Free parking vouchers are available to program attendees who park at the Franklin Street Garage (15 W. Franklin Street). Ask Pratt event staff for your parking voucher prior to or after the program.
- There is no registration required for virtual attendance. Simply visit the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Facebook or YouTube page.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, United States
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