8/25: Poetry Event with Claire Weiner, John Freeman, & Richard Tillinghast

8/25: Poetry Event with Claire Weiner, John Freeman, & Richard Tillinghast

Join us at Booksweet for a poetry reading event! We will have readings, author Q&A, and light refreshments!

About For a Chance to Walk on Streets of Gold by Claire Weiner:

For a Chance to Walk on Streets of Gold is a personal history that weaves deftly across time, place, and generations. It moves from Poland and Russia where the poet's grandparents were born and escaped persecution, to Chicago and its suburbs, where the poet grew up, to Florida, where her parents retired. Without sentimentality, but with respect and tenderness, these poems speak of a family's vulnerabilities as well as joys. The reader experiences a deep sense of empathy for suffering and an equal ability to celebrate success.

About Claire Weiner:

Claire Weiner’s work has been published in After Hours Press, Burningwood Literary Review, Michigan Jewish History Society, Peninsula Poets and others. She spent her non-writing career as a clinical social worker helping people make more sense of their life stories. She splits her time between Ann Arbor, and Tucson grateful to be in both places.

About Richard Tillinghast:

Night Train to Memphis, 2025, is the most recent of Richard Tillinghast’s many books of poetry. He has also published five works of creative nonfiction including literary travel books on Istanbul and Ireland and a critical biography of the poet Robert Lowell, with whom he studied writing at Harvard. Tillinghast has received a number of awards and honors, including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Amy Lowell Trust, the NEA, the Irish Arts Council, and the British Council. He has taught at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, Sewanee, the college program at San Quentin Pr*son, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Michigan, where he is now an emeritus professor. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Paris Review, the Atlantic, The New Republic, Best American Poetry and elsewhere. A native of Memphis who has traveled widely and lived abroad, including six years in Ireland, Richard now makes his home in Hawaii and spends his summers in Sewanee, Tennessee.

About Cal Freeman:

Cal Freeman (he/him) is the author of the books Fight Songs (Eyewear 2017) and Poolside at the Dearborn Inn (R&R Press 2022). His writing has appeared in many journals including Atticus Review, Image, The Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Under a Warm Green Linden, North American Review, Panoply, Oxford American, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Advanced Leisure. He is a recipient of the Devine Poetry Fellowship (judged by Terrance Hayes), winner of Passages North's Neutrino Prize, and a finalist for the River Styx International Poetry Prize. Born and raised in Detroit, he teaches at Oakland University and serves as Writer-In-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Detroit. His chapbook of poems, Yelping the Tegmine, has just been released, and his hybrid full-length collection, The Weather of Our Names is due out this year from Cornerstone Press.

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