Wilder Words
Thursday, January 30, 2025
6-7 PM (Eastern)
Join us for the next installment of Wilder Words, a quarterly virtual reading featuring the stellar faculty of the 24PearlStreet Online Writing Program. In this reading, we’ll hear from authors Didi Jackson, Carl Phillips, Susanna Sonnenberg, and Ruben Quesada.
This event is free and open to the public. Register here to receive the Zoom link.
About Our Readers
Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity (2024) and Moon Jar (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, The New Yorker, and Oxford American among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith, and Together in Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where she teaches creative writing. Most recently she completed her certification as a Tennessee Naturalist.
Carl Phillips is the author, most recently, of Scattered Snows, to the North (FSG, 2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (FSG, 2022), which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips’s other honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Library of Congress. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022). After over thirty years teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, Phillips lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of two memoirs, Her Last Death and She Matters: A Life in Friendships. Her recent essay “Mirage” was a Notable selection in 2024’s Best American Essays. The recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Djarassi Foundation, among many others, she has taught widely and been on the Summer Faculty of FAWC since 2017. She lives in Missoula, Montana.
Ruben Quesada’s latest poetry collection, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors Prize, was published in October 2024. He edited the anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2023. Quesada’s work appears in The Believer, American Poetry Review, the Best American Poetry series, Harvard Review, and The New York Times Magazine. Quesada has received fellowships from the Jentel Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He lives in Chicago.
At 24PearlStreet, we believe everyone has a story to tell, and we are here to help you tell yours. Whether you are a seasoned writer or just starting, our online writing program has something for everyone. From poetry to prose, fiction to non-fiction, our courses are designed to help you refine your craft and take your writing to the next level.
