Poetry Happy Hour with poets John Freeman and Aria Aber
{pages} is very pleased to be hosting our first, Poetry Happy Hour with celebrated poets, John Freeman and Aria Aber. Join us at 5:30 pm on Monday, March 20th for a glass of wine and a few lines of poetry from guest poets, John Freeman (Wind, Trees) and Aria Aber (Hard Damage). This is a free event, but RSVPs are appreciated.
About the poets:
John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His own books include Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Planets, an anthology of new writing about inequality and the climate crisis globally, and three poetry collections, Maps, The Park and Wind, Trees. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Zyzzyva.
Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She is at work on a novel and a second book of poems.
