Keynote
Pulitzer Prize finalist Mai Der Vang’s “lyrical interventions strike powerful notes of lamentation and rage” (The New Yorker)
Join us for our 2025 Literary Salon in Minneapolis on Thursday, September 25! Limited tickets remaining. Get your ticket now!
I come to you
as the animal who wants to be found,
a bowl for a place to fit your
nested head. I swear not to rush the life
where you come back to dream.
I’ll wake and wait all night
if that’s what the sleeping takes.
—from “Animal”
Shapeshifting: Reginald Dwayne Betts & Mai Der Vang in conversation at Portland Book Festival, moderated by Jenn Chávez. LOCATION: Portland'5 Winningstad Theatre. Copies of Primordial will be available for purchase from Broadway Books. Click here for details.