The Poet's Memoir

• Thursday, September 19
• 5:30 PM
• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine
• 121 Wall Street
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Jen Hadfield’s Storm Pegs gives us a glimpse into her life as a poet in Shetland Islands. Poet Danielle Chapman’s memoir Holler tells of her military childhood in the south. In this wide-ranging conversation, the poets discuss poetry and life, and how they chose to write about them in prose.

Danielle Chapman is a poet, nonfiction writer, and lecturer in English at Yale University. Her memoir, Holler: A Poet Among Patriots, was released by Unbound Edition Press in 2023, and her previous collection of poems is Delinquent Palaces (2015). She teaches Shakespeare and creative writing and lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband, Christian Wiman, and their twin daughters, Fiona and Eliza.