The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series Presents: Marilyn Hacker & Ayana Mathis
Mar 18th 2025
Events @ Labyrinth
Tuesday 3/18 at 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Bestselling authors Marilyn Hacker and Ayana Mathis read from their recent work as a part of the 2024-25 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, which provides an opportunity for students as well as all in the greater Princeton region to hear and meet outstanding contemporary writers.
Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen volumes of poems. Her honors include the National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Ayana Mathis is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, an NPR Best Book of 2013, and The Unsettled, a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2023. Her work has been supported by the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation. Mathis received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to become the first African-American woman to serve as an Assistant Professor in that program. She teaches at Hunter College in the MFA Program.
This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.