Poetry Day: Linda Bierds, Peter Cole & Brad Leithauser

Celebrate Poetry Day with a reading by a selection of MacArthur Fellowship recipients. Inaugurated by Robert Frost in 1955, Poetry Day is one of the oldest and most distinguished poetry reading series in the country.

Linda Bierds’s ninth book of poetry, Roget's Illusion, was longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award; she is the Grace Pollock Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Washington.

Peter Cole has written five books of poetry, most recently Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations; he teaches at Yale University.

Brad Leithauser’s most recent book is The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems. His new novel, The Promise of Elsewhere, will appear in 2019; he teaches at Johns Hopkins University.

Programming in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Chicago Public Library