“Stupid Poet. A war can’t know what it wants.” – from Katie Ford, “The Lord is a Man of War”

Katie Ford, Matthea Harvey, and Claudia Rankine reading at yesterday’s Graywolf Press 40th Anniversary Celebration with Poetry Foundation Program Director Stephen Young and Graywolf Press’ Executive Editor Jeff Shotts

Matthea Harvey’s showed her silhouette illustration for “The Straightforward Mermaid”…and her own silhouetted head listening to Rankine.