This year CityLit and the Motor House, in partnership welcome featured poets DANEZ SMITH and REGINALD DWAYNE BETTSto A Home for the Heart to Live In, which signifies a reunion of poets, a revival of a pre-pandemic program, and a renewal and declaration of the importance of words by way of a poem. Won’t you poet that, Lucille Clifton used to say when she heard something profound and singular to an experience. CityLit has long believed it is one thing to read poetry in the quiet reflection in one’s own company. Quite another to hear it in a roomful of word lovers, in a space that embraces the extraordinary along with the ordinary reflections of wordsmiths, celebrated and acknowledged. If home is a heart we live in, CityLit is a place to seek refuge for the velocity of language. Join us for a Sunday afternoon of poetry where we showcase a spectacular round up of poets.

Last year’s iteration included poets Yona Harvey and Brionne Janae, and an ensemble of regional fellows in partnership with the Motor House. Sunday, December 8th, along with our featured poets, and curated by REGINALD HARRIS, we welcome ABDUL ALI, BRIAN GILMORE, ALAN KING, TERRI CROSS DAVIS, HAYES DAVIS, LAUREN RUSSELL, KATEEMA LEE, JADI Z. OMOWALE, STEVEN LEYVA, ALEXA PATRICK, and STEWART SHAW.