Sarah Ghazal Ali, a Pakistani woman in a maroon scarf, looks into a mirror. — Kimiko Hahn

Performances

Ghost Forest

May 15, 2025 - May 16, 2025 | 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM

Celebrate The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems, a retrospective collection by Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient, Kimiko Hahn. Hahn will read alongside three recent Poetry contributors who have new books: Sarah Ghazal Ali (Theophanies), Mónica de la Torre (Pause the Document), and Rosalie Moffett (Making a Living). Through formal experimentation and imaginative metaphors, these four women poets texture daily life with existential mystery.

If you could hear what’s not a fault—and is a fault—
You’d hear the earth sounding

war—

— Kimiko Hahn, Anaphora Using Wilfred Owen’s Line “If you could hear, at every jolt”

This event is part of the Poetry Foundation’s spring 2025 season, Power Lines.

Additional Information

All Poetry Foundation events are completely free of charge and open to the public.
Advanced registration is encouraged.
The performance space is ADA-compliant and wheelchair-accessible.
The program will feature CART captioning and ASL interpretation.
For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation, please visit our Accessibility Guide.

poetry-magazineMake-Believe

poetry-magazineFrom “Pause the Document”

poetry-magazineMy Faith Gets Grime under Its Nails

poetry-magazineAnaphora Using Wilfred Owen’s Line “If you could hear, at every jolt”

Make-Believe

From “Pause the Document”

My Faith Gets Grime under Its Nails

Anaphora Using Wilfred Owen’s Line “If you could hear, at every jolt”