Welcome back and happy rentrée à toutes et à tous! We are delighted to be opening our 2024-2025 season with the newly-returned-to-Paris American poet Marissa Davis. Please join us in our favorite natural wine and book shop in Paris, Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité), on Saturday, September 21 from 14h-16h to hear Marissa read work from her forthcoming book, End of Empire (Penguin 2025). A conversation and Q & A with the poet will follow the reading.
Featured Poet
Marissa Davis is a poet and translator from Paducah, Kentucky. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Poem-A-Day, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. Her translations are published or forthcoming in Modern Poetry in Translation, Massachusetts Review, and The Common, among others. Her chapbook, My Name & Other Languages I Am Learning How to Speak (Jai-Alai Books, 2020) was selected by Danez Smith for Cave Canem’s 2019 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Prize, and her full-length debut, End of Empire, is forthcoming in 2025 from Penguin Books. Davis holds an MFA from New York University and was a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow.