Join Katie Ford as she reads from her newest collection, If You Have to Go (Graywolf Press, 2018), with Academy Chancellor David St. John on Saturday, August 25, 2018, 5 p.m., at Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA.
Katie Ford is the author of three previous poetry collections: Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014), Colosseum (2008), and Deposition (2002). The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Prize, she teaches at the University of California, Riverside.
David St. John’s most recent collection of poetry is The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems (Ecco, 2017). A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, he is also chair of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Venice Beach, California.
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