CAAPP Presents: Facing The Wilderness w/ MaKshya Tolbert & Kira Tucker

National Poetry Series winners MaKshya Tolbert, author of Shade is a place (Penguin Poets, 2025), and Kira Tucker, author of Wildest (Akashic Books, 2026) will give a reading and join in conversation around lyric eco-poetics, the Black self and Black geographies, and the act of confronting the contemporary moment(s) through their craft. There will be a book signing to follow.