Please join Bellevue Literary Review in welcoming Edward Hirsch--celebrated poet, president of the Guggenheim Foundation, author of the acclaimed new book The Heart of American Poetry.

5:30 p.m. Pre-event Cocktail Party: Join Edward Hirsch and the BLR Board & Editors for Cocktails and Conversation on the outdoor terrace of The Center for Fiction. 

7:00 p.m Main Event: BLR poetry editor Sarah M. Sala will host Edward Hirsch for a book discussion and reading .

All tickets include raffle ticket to win copies of The Heart of American Poetry

Covid notes: Cocktail party will be outdoors. Kindly wear masks for indoor reading. Guests must be vaccinated.

The Center for Fiction is located at 15 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn.
How to get there?
4 train to Nevins St.
Q train to Atlantic Ave
G train to Fulton St, Bklyn

	About the book: "In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew—from Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book” and Phillis Wheatley’s “To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works” to Garrett Hongo’s “Ancestral Graves, Kahuku” and Joy Harjo’s “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks”—exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation." Purchase The Heart of American Poetry from a local bookstore.
	Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and tireless advocate for poetry. He was born in Chicago in 1950—his accent makes it impossible for him to hide his origins—and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in Folklore. His devotion to poetry is lifelong. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, the Prix de Rome, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Since then, he has published eight additional books of poems: The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994), On Love (1998), Lay Back the Darkness (2003), Special Orders (2008), The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which brings together thirty-five years of poems, Gabriel: A Poem, a book-length elegy for his son (2014), and Stranger by Night (2020).
	Sarah M. Sala is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. Her debut collection, Devil’s Lake (Tolsun 2020) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, and an Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award. She is the founder of the free poetry workshop, Office Hours, and Poetry Editor at Bellevue Literary Review. She is a clinical associate professor in the expository writing program at New York University. Her work appears in BOMB, the Southampton Review, and the Los Angeles Review.