Name: Lyricism and Everyday Life
Start: 2025-05-31T12:45:00-0700
End: 2025-05-31T13:45:00-0700

Saturday May 31, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT

Join four poets with recent books as they read poems on everyday life and finding beauty in the banal. Isabel Duarte-Gray (author of Even Shorn, Sarabande 2021), Tawanda Mulalu (author of Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want To Die, Princeton University Press 2022), Amanda Gunn (author of Things I Didn’t Do with This Body, Copper Canyon Press 2023), and Jess Yuan (author of Slow Render, Airlie 2024) will read from their collections and share new work. This reading features a variety of perspectives and lived experiences, exploring the intersection of the mundane and the profound, the ordinary and the extraordinary. How can a lyric speaker’s individual life relate to the daily lives of others? How can we weave together the real and surreal in writing through everyday experiences? Join us in celebrating the beauty of commonplace and communal moments with four poets’ original voices, tender vulnerability, and fresh thinking.

Speakers

Amanda Gunn

Amanda Gunn’s debut poetry collection, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is the recipient of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, and a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from the Wallace Stegner... Read More →

Jess Yuan

Jess Yuan (she/her) is a poet and architect. She is the author of Slow Render (2024), winner of the Airlie Prize, and Threshold Amnesia (2020), winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. Jess has received fellowships from Kundiman and Miami Writers Institute, and her poems appear in... Read More →

Saturday May 31, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT
St. Peter's Church - Chapel 24 St Peter St Salem, MA 01970 USA

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Amanda Gunn

Jess Yuan

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