Stanford Public Humanities and the Creative Writing Program invite you to an evening of poetry and conversation between two beloved writers, Hanif Abdurraqib and Aracelis Girmay. Book selling/signing to follow. 

Please RSVP at this link to attend.

Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio and the 2025-26 Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford. His newest release, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024) was a New York Times Bestseller and longlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His previous book, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections, The Crown Ain't Worth Much (Button Poetry, 2016) and A Fortune For Your Disaster (Tin House, 2019). In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2024 was named a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.

aracelis girmay is the author of four full-length poetry collections including the recently published GREEN OF ALL HEADS. She is also the editor of the anthology So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth as well as How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Her writing has appeared in e-flux, Granta, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She served as the Editor-at-Large of the BOA Editions Blessing the Boats Selections from 2021-2025. girmay is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and is the Knight Family Professor of Creative Writing at Stanford.