Poetry: Anne Marie Macari, Francisco Aragón, Maggie Dietz, Yanyi
About This Event
A poetry reading at Bryant Park brings together Anne Marie Macari, Francisco Aragón, Maggie Dietz and Yanyi. Yanyi, an American poet and critic, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2018 for his first book, The Year of Blue Water, anchoring the lineup with a prize‑recognized debut.
About the Artists
Anne Marie Macari
In Amerigun, a stunning collection of loss and rediscovery, poet Anne Marie Macari revisits her brother Edward’s long-ago death by a self-inflicted gunshot. Interweaving and disentangling her own memories and those of her family, and by reconstructing a legal and medical paper trail, Macari begins a dialogue with the dead, bringing her brother’s lost voice back to her after years of sealing herself off from him.
Yanyi
Yanyi is an American poet and critic whose work moves between lyric intensity and close reading. Their first book, *The Year of Blue Water*, received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2018, placing them in a lineage of debut collections shaped by editorial attention.