Nandana Dev Sen, Anselm Berrigan, and Catherine Barnett delve into their bodies of work, reading from their poetry and speaking to how their political beliefs and familial relationships have influenced their writing lives. The Brooklyn Book Festival will host this reading and conversation at McNally Jackson Seaport, outside on the cobblestones.

Joining Nandana are:

Anselm Berrigan is the author of Pregrets, a collection of poetry published by Black Square Editions, and eight other books of poetry including: Something for Everybody, (Wave Books, 2018), Come In Alone (Wave Books, 2016), and Primitive State (Edge, 2015). He is the poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail and is the co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011).

Catherine Barnett is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award. She has received a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.