Poets at the Strand: A Monthly Reading Series

Jorie Graham has written numerous collections of poetry, most recently Sea Change. She has received many awards for her work including the MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994. The U.S. Poetry Foundation suggested that “She is perhaps the most celebrated poet of the American post-war generation.”

Meghan O’Rourke is a poet, writer and journalist. She is a contributing writer to the on-line magazine Slate. She’s written two books of poems and the critically acclaimed memoir, The Long Goodbye.