UpdatedThu, May 6, 2021 at 5:03 pm ET Reply (RefStaff) Join vibrant, award-winning poets Krysten Hill and Cynthia Manick for a reading and discussion of their work and writing lives with poet-editor Joyce Peseroff on Sunday, May 16 at 3:00 p.m. ET. Please register here for the Zoom link. Krysten Hill (Photo credit: Jonathan Beckley) reads from her body of work whose poems "exude at once vulnerability, rawness, and lucid beauty," notes Boston former Poet Laureate, Danielle Legros Georges. Hill's debut collection How Her Spirit Got Out(Aforementioned Productions, 2016) is a lively, urgent song. Answering the writers whose voices raised her, Hill calls on Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, and Zora Neale Hurston to help her navigate the complicated landscape of selfhood. Hill's speaker, wise and direct, open yet elusive, also sings for the women who brought her up: her aunt, her grandmother, and her mother. These spirits who've guided her life and taught her through example how black women persevere have given her the means to bear witness to an age of racial violence. The collection was honored with the 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club; Award judge Sara Baker observed "Hill's words are precise and potent, and each time you read them, her poems mean more."