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In Conversation: Claire Schwartz & Sarah Ghazal Ali
December 6, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST
Poets Claire Schwartz and Sarah Ghazal Ali will join the Notebooks Collective for an evening of conversation about their writing and the work of poetry.
About Claire
Claire Schwartz is the author of Civil Service (Graywolf Press, 2022) and the culture editor of Jewish Currents. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Claire is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Brooklyn.
About Sarah
Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies, selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, and forthcoming with Alice James Books in January 2024. A 2022 Djanikian Scholar, her poems appear in POETRY, American Poetry Review, Pleiades, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University and poetry editor for West Branch. Find her at sarahgali.com.
About Civil Service
In this astonishing debut, Claire Schwartz stages the impossibility of articulating freedom in a nation of prisons. Civil Service probes the razor-thin borders between ally and accomplice, surveillance and witness, carcerality and care—the lines we draw to believe ourselves good.—Graywolf Press