Arthur Sze has published 12 books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation and Sight Lines, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of many more honors and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Forrest Gander is a translator, editor, and author of more than two dozen books including Twice Alive: an Ecology of Intimacy and Be With, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Arthur Sze has published 12 books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation and Sight Lines, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of many more honors and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Forrest Gander is a translator, editor, and author of more than two dozen books including Twice Alive: an Ecology of Intimacy and Be With, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

This event is a partnership between Lannan Foundation and Haymarket Books.

Lannan Foundation's Readings & Conversations series features inspired writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as cultural freedom advocates with a social, political, and environmental justice focus. We are excited to offer these programs online to a global audience. Video and audio recordings of all events are available at lannan.org.

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago. Our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements and the education and development of a critical, engaged, international left.

Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity through projects that support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, inspired Native activists in rural communities, and social justice advocates.