Join Persea Books and Creative Writing at The New School for a celebration of independent publishing and three new books from Persea authors. Poetry Editor Gabriel Fried will introduce Elizabeth Bradfield, reading from her new book SOFAR, Michelle Peñaloza, winner of the Persea Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice and the James Laughlin Awards for All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems, and Carey Salerno, reading from her new book The Hungriest Stars. Persea is an independent, literary publishing house founded in 1975 by Michael Braziller and Karen Braziller, who still own and direct the company. Persea books focus on contemporary issues expressed through individual experience. Their list spans poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, biography, and more, reflecting the diversity of American literature, as well as literature (in translation) from around the world.
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