John Godfrey

John Godfrey goes back a ways. He led workshops at the Poetry Project in ’76, ’82-’83 and ’13. He was a mentor ’16-’17. His last collection is The City Keeps: New and Selected Poems 1966-2014 (Wave Books, 20016).

Camille Rankine

Camille Rankine is the author of Incorrect Merciful Impulses, published in 2016 by Copper Canyon Press, and the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America’s 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is the recipient of a 2010 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. She serves on the Executive Committee for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, chairs the board of The Poetry Project, and teaches at The New School and Hampshire College.

Writing Translation: Katrina Dodson, Aditi Machado, & Anna Moschovakis

CANCELED — TALK — HOLDING FORGOTTEN READERS CLOSE: Four Black Women Reflect on African-American Literary Community.