Hugo House presents poet Morgan Parker reading from her forthcoming collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House Books, 2017).

Brooklyn-based writer Rebecca Schiff will open the evening with a reading from her devastatingly witty debut collection of stories, The Bed Moved (Knopf), and Hugo House poet-in-residence Anastacia Tolbert emcees.

Free to the public
Note: Venue is 21+

“What about modern womanhood isn’t explored in Morgan Parker’s poetry collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé? The easy answer: nothing. Filled with politics, pop culture, and personal poetry, this collection challenges the status quo… Parker’s writing is soulful and in-your-face, and is exactly the best of what modern poets have to offer their readers.” – #1 in New Must-Read Collections by Poets of Color (Bustle mag)

“So much soul. So much intelligence in how Parker folds in cultural references and the experiences of black womanhood. Every poem will get its hooks into you.” —Roxane Gay

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies, including Why I Am Not A Painter, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow, Morgan lives in Brooklyn, New York. She works as an editor for Little A and Day One, moonlights as poetry editor of The Offing, and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective.