Emily Wilson, celebrated translator of The Iliad (2023) and The Odyssey (2018), will be visiting Pittsburgh to recite a selection of her work at the International Poetry Forum. Tickets are available here.

Kimiko Hahn, Ruth Lilly Prize-winner and Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets, will be visiting Pittsburgh to read and discuss the influence of haiku poet Matsuo Bashō on her work. This free event is co-hosted by Carlow University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program and Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops. (Tickets will be available soon! Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when they’re released.)

Srikanth Reddy, acclaimed poet, University of Chicago professor, and poetry editor for The Paris Review, will be visiting Pittsburgh to perform his work at the International Poetry Forum. Tickets are available here.

The International Poetry Forum is honored to welcome back Grammy Award-winning folk legend Judy Collins to celebrate her new poetry collection, Sometimes It’s Heaven: Poems of Love, Loss, and Redemption, at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books. Event time TBA; sign up for our newsletter to be the first to hear about tickets.