Reading and Writing Places

Join Windham-Campbell Prize recipients Kei Miller and Lucy Sante for a conversation on the power of place in literature, moderated by Prize director Michael Kelleher. From the layered streetscapes of 20th-century New York to the Kingston neighborhoods, sacred landscapes, and contested geographies of Jamaica, Miller and Sante have spent their careers exploring how specific environments shape identity, memory, and voice. In this event, they examine place from both sides of the page: how writers capture the distinct texture and social history of a location, and how the physical spaces where we write influence the work itself.

Michael Kelleher is the author of four books of poems, including Visible Instruments and Museum Hours. He is the director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale University.