A reflection on a year like no other from resounding voices in American letters. Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwidge Danticat, and Threa Almontaser join moderator John Freeman in a searching conversation, asking how we can convert personal and collective grief left by the pandemic—and the injustices that were heightened and exposed in its midst—into collective repair, and how we can attain the revolutionary love we need.

The new and old poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa’s most recent collection, Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth, form a “roving survey of history and nature,” in which “violence often meets beauty” with “muscular…lyrical precision” (Publishers Weekly). The poet, often evoking his own recollections of fighting in the Vietnam War, offers up visceral visions of past and contemporary conflicts in “nimble verses” that “brim with erudition” (Hyperallergic).

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist. She is one of the many powerful contributors to There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love.

Threa Almontaser’s Walt Whitman Award-winning debut collection, The Wild Fox of Yemen, is rife with “beautifully crafted poems [that] can feel like mini-histories, intricate narratives spanning only a few pages” (Chicago Review of Books) and touching on kindred themes from her vantage point as a young Yemeni immigrant coming of age in New York City after 9/11.

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