The Poetry Center is honored to welcome Denise Riley, in a rare online appearance, and Jennifer Soong. Joining us, respectively, from London, U.K., and the Eastern U.S., the poets each read from their work. Riley reads new poems from a manuscript titled Lurex (forthcoming in 2022, Picador, UK) and from her first collection of poems from a U.S.-based publisher, Say Something Back / Time Lived, Without Its Flow (New York Review of Books, Poets Series, 2020), and Soong reads new unpublished poems from the manuscript of a forthcoming book, Suede Mantis, Soft Rage (due in 2022 from Black Sun), from her debut book, Near, At (Futurepoem, 2019), and from new work. The poets then join one another in conversation, together with emcee Brandon Brown, responding to questions from him, from one another, and from their remote-access audience. This program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and co-sponsored with NYRB Poets and Futurepoem.
