POETRY event - chicago

READING Poetry off the Shelf: Patricia Smith and Reginald Dwayne Betts Tuesday, November 10, 7:00 PM Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street Free admission

Patricia Smith is the author of six books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler (2008), a chronicle of the human and environmental cost of Hurricane Katrina which was nominated for a National Book Award and Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection. Reginald Dwayne Betts is author of the poetry collections Shahid Reads His Own Palm (2010), and Bastards of the Reagan Era (2015).