Join poets and authors Hanif Abdurraqib and Kaveh Akbar, and musicians Kasey Anderson and a Special Guest for an evening of poetry, music and conversation to benefit the Alano Club of Portland.
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. In 2024, he released the bestselling non-fiction book There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension with Random House, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. Hanif is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
Kaveh Akbar is the New York Times bestselling author of the novel Martyr!—a finalist for the National Book Award and one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year—and two books of poetry: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf. He is also the author of a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic and editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine and, with Paige Lewis, co-editor of Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance.
Kaveh is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Poetry Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, and elsewhere, and has been awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, the Levis Reading Prize, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and named one of the TIME 100 Next. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Kasey Anderson is a gradually-retiring songwriter whose songs you have absolutely heard, likely performed by artists other than Kasey Anderson.
