Celebrate National Poetry Month with Rachel DeWoskin

In honor of National Poetry Month, please join the City of Highland Park, Rachel DeWoskin, an award-winning Chicago author of eight books, and Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Highland Park’s Poet Laureate, for an evening at Wayfarer Theaters in downtown Highland Park (1850 Second St.).

On April 21, Rachel will discuss the writing life, including inspiration, research and imagination, art and activism, and writing across genres including fiction, non-fiction, dramatic writing, and poetry.

DeWoskin’s novels include Someday We Will Fly, Banshee, Blind, Big Girl Small, and Repeat After Me; two poetry collections absolute animal and Two Menus; and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She has won awards including a National Jewish Book Award, a Sydney Taylor Book Award, an American Library Association Alex Award, and an Academy of American Poets Award. Foreign Babes in Beijing, Someday We Will Fly, and Banshee are being developed for film or TV, and DeWoskin’s poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Baffler, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. She serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA).

A book signing will follow this free event.