METRO DETROIT When Amanda Gorman gave an expressive reading of her work, “The Hill We Climb,” during the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in January 2021, it was a revelation to many: They don’t hate poetry after all.
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My grandmother spent forty years in self-imposed exile. Forty years living a life of quiet remove. And prayer. Lots of it. Mimi was a staunch Catholic. In the early 1950s, when she was in her forties, she was bitten by an unidentified bug in the backyard while she was talking to a neighbor across the fence. When she returned to the kitchen, her forehead was bleeding. The doctors never came up with a definitive diagnosis, but after that she almost never left the house. And she worried about everything the state of the world, traveling, her children.
Kenyon Review Reading Series 2020-21
All events sponsored in whole or in part by the
Kenyon Review, the Kenyon College English Department, GLCA New Writers Award, Ohio Arts Council, and the
KR Associates Program.
All of this year’s Kenyon Review Reading Series events are VIRTUAL. See below for links to our scheduled events, and please visit this page again soon as we are building a rich lineup for this fall. You can purchase books written by our virtual reading series authors in our KR Bookshop. We hope you’ll join us.
Although these readings are free and open to the public, we hope you will consider making a donation. With your support, we’ll continue to provide programming that celebrates the most exciting voices in literature from ever more diverse, ever more talented communities of authors.