Sunday Poetry with Jared Harel, Joan Kwon Glass, and B.K. Fischer

We invite you to this inspirational gathering of three critically-acclaimed Hudson Valley poets for reading and conversation: Jared Harel, Joan Kwon Glass, and B.K. Fischer. Themes of parenthood, mourning and loss, and a retelling of Noah's Ark (among others) will be explored at this event. Descriptions of each poet's collection can be found below.

This event is free to attend, but we ask you to RSVP here for planning purposes.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Jared Harel

Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear, dynamic verse that disarms then strikes, Jared Harél investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity, personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Island, donating blood in a synagogue basement, or simply showing his son snowflakes on Inauguration morning, Harél guides us toward moments of intimacy and understanding, humor and grief. “I will try,” he admits, “to be better than myself, which is all/I’ve ever wanted and everything I need.” Winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a secular prayer. Hoping against hope, Harél works to reconcile feelings of luck and loss, of living for joy while fearing the worst.

Joan Kwon Glass is the author of NIGHT SWIM (Diode Editions, 2022) & three chapbooks. She serves as poet laureate for Milford, CT, as Editor in Chief for Harbor Review & as a writing instructor at Brooklyn Poets, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Corporeal & elsewhere. Joan’s poems have been published or featured or are forthcoming in The Slowdown, Ninth Letter, Poetry Northwest, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Asian American Writer’s Workshop (The Margins), Hayden’s Ferry Review, RHINO, Dialogist & elsewhere. She lives in Connecticut with her family & you may read more about her at www.joankwonglass.com or Instagram @joan_kwon_glass. 

B.K. Fischer is the author of Ceive, a finalist for the 2021 National Books Critic Circle Award, and four previous books of poetry—Radioapocrypha, My Lover’s Discourse, St. Rage’s Vault, and Mutiny Gallery—as well as a critical study, Museum Mediations. Her poems and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, LA Review of Books, Boston Review, WSQ, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, FIELD, Jacket2, The Account, and elsewhere. She teaches the Comma Sutra in the MFA writing program at Columbia University and is currently the poet laureate of Westchester County, New York. You can find her @bk_on_hudson or www.bkfischer.com.