in bookstores NOVEMBER 18, 2025
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world.
It sometimes feels that we've been drawn into a collective vocabulary of outrage and division--and, by extension, a climate of toxic and sometimes lethal disregard. But I believe we have it within our power to can change this. In Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, I argue that feeling and responding to the effects of a poem is one way of pushing back against an increasing threat to our collective future: the weapon of inaccurate, misleading and divisive language.
Upcoming Appearances:
10/18/2025: Southern Festival of Books, Vanderbilt University
10/23/2025: Tucson Humanities Festival
10/30/2025: TEDxNew England
11/10/2025: Southern Methodist University
11/22/2025: Miami Book Fair
12/4/2025: Symphony Space, NYC
12/8/2025: Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA