Join celebrated writers Nick Flynn and Marie Howe for an evening of readings and conversation exploring literary friendship, artistic collaboration, and creative influence. Introduced by Aditi Bhattacharjee.

Nick Flynn is the author of twelve books, including most recently the poetry collection Low and Stay: threads, collaborations, and conversations, which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. His acclaimed memoir Another Night in City was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro.

Marie Howe received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her New and Selected Poems. The former Poet Laureate of New York State, she is the poet in residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Aditi Bhattacharjee is an Indian writer and translator. Her work has appeared in Epiphany, The Punch, Sky Island Journal, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere and has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets and a Pushcart Prize. She is the programs manager at A Public Space and lives in New York City.

Schedule:

7 pm - On literary kinship: reading and conversation between friends, nick flynn and marie howe