This event is part of Third Thursdays Poetry, a monthly reading series at Brookline Booksmith

Third Thursdays Poetry

Chen Chen’s second book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in September 2022. His debut, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. He is core poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.

Tamiko Beyer‘s books are the 2022 Lambda Literary Award winner Last Days, We Come Elemental, and Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, essays, and prompts for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power (forthcoming from North Atlantic Books).

Joshua Nguyen is the author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press), winner of the 2021 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and winner of the 2022 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbook American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press, 2021). He is a PhD student at The University of Mississippi, where he also received his MFA.

Niki Tulk is an ex-pat Australian, and experimental theatre-maker, improviser, writer, poet and author of Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming (Routledge, 2022). She currently lives with her family and rescue dog in the White Mountains, New Hampshire.

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Join us for June’s Poetry Night at Hale! The evening will begin with an open mic and end with a set by a featured poet.

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Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for a virtual event with author Ursula Andkjær Olsen and translator Katrine Øgaard Jensen to discuss and celebrate the release of My Jewel Box, the last book in Olsen’s trilogy. They will be in conversation with poet Sohini Basak.

With My Jewel Box, prize-winning poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen completes her visionary trilogy—a “fairy tale of the universe” investigating grief, bodies, motherhood, and the physical and economic inequities of modern planetary life. Rendered into English by award-winning translator Katrine Øgaard Jensen, the trilogy begins with Third-Millennium Heart, a volume proposing a new understanding of the maternal body via orientation outwards to the cosmos at large. Olsen’s second book—a “mirror-poem” called Outgoing Vessel—re-thinks grief as a radical hardness, re-training lyric interiority through machine experimentations and technoscientific Google Translate mutations. With My Jewel Box, Olsen mounts a cosmically human (and non-human) re-approach to a grief-stricken earth, a place of all times entangled.

Ursula Andkjær Olsen made her literary debut in 2000 and has since published nine collections of poetry and one novel, in addition to several dramatic texts and libretti for operas such as Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s Sol går op, sol går ned, and composer Peter Bruun’s Miki Alone, which was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2008. Olsen has received numerous awards for her work, including the Danish Arts Foundation’s Award of Distinction in 2017, the 2012 Montanaprisen award for Det 3. årtusindes hjerte (Third-Millennium Heart, Broken Dimanche Press/Action Books 2017), and the 2015 Danish Critics Prize for Literature for Udgående fartøj (Outgoing Vessel, Action Books 2021). Since 2019, Olsen has served as head of The Danish Academy of Creative Writing. Her latest poetry collection, Mit Smykkeskrin (My Jewel Box, Action Books 2022), was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2021.

Katrine Øgaard Jensen is a poet, writer, and translator from the Danish. She is a recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the Danish Arts Foundation’s Young Artistic Elite Fellowship in 2020 as well as the 2018 National Translation Award in Poetry for her translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart. Her translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Outgoing Vessel was shortlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 2022. She teaches creative writing and literary translation at Columbia University, where she served as Acting Director of Literary Translation from 2019-2020.

Moderator Sohini Basak’s first poetry collection We Live in the Newness of Small Differences was awarded the inaugural International Beverly Manuscript Prize and published in 2018. In 2017, she received a Toto Funds the Arts award. She studied literature and creative writing at the universities of Delhi, Warwick, and East Anglia, where she was awarded the 2015 Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Grant for Poetry. She works as an editor and is joining us from her hometown Barrackpore in India.

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When Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith was appointed as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2017, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden praised the breadth and generosity of her work, writing: “With directness and deftness, she contends with the heavens or plumbs our inner depths—all to better understand what makes us most human.” Smith’s work as Poet Laureate inspired her to take poetry to rural communities across the country and to launch a daily podcast encouraging listeners to slow down and make space for poetry, all while building on her own remarkable body of work. Smith’s new book, Such Color, is the first career-spanning volume from this tremendously talented poet, pulling together selections from her prior collections as well as eighteen new poems. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly writes that Such Color “serves as a humbling and invigorating reawakening from sorrow and apathy.” Smith will be in conversation with another former Poet Laureate, Danielle Legros Georges, former Poet Laureate of the City of Boston. For this opening keynote session, slow down and make space for a vital and thoughtful conversation about the place of poetry in our lives and about the role of poetry in recovery and resistance. Sponsored by Mass Poetry, with media sponsorship by TLS.

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