Join us in welcoming local author Hollis Kurman as she reads and signs copies of her newly released poetry book Unlikely Skylight! (Barrow Street Books NY)
“These are poems that strike the heart with their quiet observations on love, loss, and the ever-present passage of time.”
- Sarah Ladipo Manyika, author 'In Dependence'
Unlikely Skylight moves across landscapes both personal and geopolitical—from Amsterdam’s canals to Long Island's East End, and urban art galleries to the poet's ancestral homelands. Whether she’s examining repercussions of war, migration, and personal history, or the joys of art and dance, there are few sociopolitical or cultural spaces that are not transformed by Kurman’s nimble craft and daring empathy. Her writing crosses borders and invites us to take a fresh and undaunted look at rites of passage, peril, and survival, always revealing “the surmise of light under doors.”
