Donald Revell is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, six volumes of translations from the French, and three volumes of critical writings, including Essay: A Critical Memoir. A former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, he is the winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, and he has twice been awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His latest book of poems, Canandaigua (Alice James Books), was named a must-read book of 2024 by both Publishers Weekly and LitHub. The book asks how our culture of technological advancement and greed has fed into a wide decline in empathy.
This event will take place IN-PERSON at the Downtown Writers Center and be streamed ONLINE via Zoom.