Nov
29
1:00am
Rumpus Poetry Book Club presents Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis, editors of Another Last Call X Kristen Renee Miller, Editor in Chief and Executive Director at Sarabande Books
By The Rumpus
Join us for an exclusive Rumpus Poetry Book Club conversation with editors Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis, Kristen Renee Miller, Editor in Chief and Executive Director at Sarabande Books, and Rumpus Publisher Alyson Sinclair. They'll discuss ANOTHER LAST CALL and how it fits into Sarabande Books's editorial vision.
About the October Poetry Book Club selection:
In 1997, Sarabande published Last Call, a poetry anthology that became a formative text on the lived experiences of addiction. Now, more than twenty-five years later, editors Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis offer this companion volume for a new generation. Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction & Deliverance showcases work from poets like Joy Harjo, Afaa M. Weaver, Diane Seuss, Layli Long Soldier, Sharon Olds, Jericho Brown, Ada Limón, and Ocean Vuong, as well as many new and powerful voices.
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017), in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry 2016). He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine (Penguin Classics 2022). In 2024, Knopf will publish Martyr!, Kaveh's first novel.
Paige Lewis is the author of Space Struck (Sarabande Books, 2019). Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. They teach writing at the University of Iowa.
Kristen Renee Miller is the director and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books. A poet and translator, she is a 2023 NEA Fellow and the translator of two books from the French by Ilnu Nation poet Marie-Andrée Gill. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, AIGA, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, and the American Literary Translators Association. Her work can be found widely, including in Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and Best New Poets. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Alyson Sinclair is the Publisher of The Rumpus. She holds and MFA in Poetry from the University of Minnesota. She has worked various literary publishers in the past both in-house and as a freelance publicist including FSG, McSweeney's, City Lights, Alice James Books, and many others. She lives in Asheville, NC.
Sarabande Books is an award-winning, nonprofit literary press founded in Louisville, Kentucky in 1994 to champion poetry, fiction, and essay. Sarabande's catalog includes nearly 300 titles to date, and such notable authors as Sandra Cisneros, James Tate, Mary Ruefle, Frank Bidart, Lydia Davis, and Robert Pinsky. Sarabande authors have been recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, Lambda Literary awards, the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and many PEN/American honors.
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