Rivers that Feed Us

Heritage in Poetry

Herman Beavers

Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Airea D. Matthews

2022–2023 Philadelphia Poet Laureate; Associate Professor and Co-Director of Creative Writing, Bryn Mawr College

Raquel Salas Rivera

2018–2019 Philadelphia Poet Laureate

Syd Zolf

Artist in Residence, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania

Poems give life to our collective senses of identity and history, to individual feelings, to experiences of belonging and loss, and joy and sorrow. They shape our memories and help make sense of how we arrived where we are and where we are going. Please join us for an evening of readings by four outstanding poets, Herman Beavers, Airea D. Matthews, Raquel Salas Rivera, and Syd Zolf, as they reflect on heritage in all its richness and complexity.

A book signing will follow.