Late Night Debut, hosted by Amber Keller
This month we feature Solmaz Sharif’s debut poetry collection, Look, published by Graywolf Press. The Rumpus says, “Look is a book that disrupts, fervently and effectively. The poems within … constantly reach, inquire, prod, and wonder—sometimes with force—and refuse to allow the reader to be lulled into the sense that everything is okay in the world.”
Act 1: Host Amber Keller covers entertaining book culture news and cool new debuts
Act 2: Rickey Laurentiis and Javier Zamora discuss Solmaz Sharif’s debut
Act 3: Rickey Laurentiis speaks with Solmaz Sharif about how language is used by the media and politicians, and how it should be used by poets

 
 
Purchase Look from IndieBound
GIVEAWAY: WIN A FREE COPY OF SHARIF’S DEBUT.
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE FOR DETAILS, THEN EMAIL
AMBER@LATENIGHTLIBRARY.ORG BY
MIDNIGHT ON AUGUST 1.
ABOUT OUR FEATURED AUTHOR:
Solmaz Sharif has published poetry in the New Republic and Poetry, and has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
ABOUT OUR CO-HOSTS:

Rickey Laurentiis was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. His honors include a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. In 2016, he traveled to Palestine as a part of the Palestine Festival of Literature. His first book, Boy with Thorn, won the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, among others.
 
 

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. His first book is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.