In Hayan Charara’s new collection of poems, These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, he asks the essential question: what does it mean to be good? Poet Jennifer Michael Hecht searches for an authentic and meaningful life in The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives–and discovers answers in poetry. Join them for a discussion about poetry and finding meaning and connection.
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Hayan Charara is a poet, children’s book author, essays, and editor. He is also co-founder and series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Born in Detroit, he lived in New York City for many years but moved to Texas, where he has lived for the past twenty years. His most recent poetry book is These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit.
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Jennifer Michael Hecht, a historian and poet, is the award-winning and bestselling author of the histories Doubt, Stay, The Happiness Myth, and The End of the Soul. Her poetry books include Who Said, The Next Ancient World, and Funny. She earned her PhD in history from Columbia University and teaches in New York City. The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives is her latest book.
