Iowa City poet Susan Aizenberg will read from A Walk With Frank O’Hara: Poems, published by the University of New Mexico Press Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, edited by Hilda Raz. “Susan Aizenberg is a poet with a wonderfully distinct voice–the poems in A Walk With Frank O’Hara have that difficult-to-achieve illusion of effortlessness I deeply admire, with no fussiness or straining for effect, but rather a clean elegance that allows Aizenberg’s natural lyricism to shine. Aizenberg is one of the most accomplished poets writing in America today.”–Erin Belieu

“Susan Aizenberg embraces influences–including Denise Levertov, Stephen Dunn, and Louis Simpson–to create exquisite narratives about human freedom. . . . Her poems shimmer with clarity. Her meditations marvel.”–Denise Duhamel

Susan Aizenberg is the author of the poetry collections Quiet City and Muse and the coeditor of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. She lives in Iowa City.