Laynie Browne, India Radfar, Jen/Eleana Hofer
Wednesday, July 8
Doors: 7pm
Reading: 7:30pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
On Wednesday, July 8, the PRB welcomes Laynie Browne to the bureau, whose recent books of poetry include Antediluvian Sonnets (Third Hand Books, 2026) and Apprentice to a Breathing Hand (Omnidawn, 2025). Joining Laynie: poets India Radfar and Jen/Eleana Hofer.
Antediluvian Sonnets sets out to reflect and refract the ways that time is constantly bent, especially through elegy. This book is also a love letter and homage text, tracing the lineage of experiments received from one mother of the modern sonnet, Bernadette Mayer. Loss is ageless, and transmutes the notion of any life being linear. Form is another way to consider time, another way for the ancient to become the future.
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Laynie Browne's recent books of poetry include: Antediluvian Sonnets (Third Hand Books, 2026), Apprentice to a Breathing Hand (Omnidawn, 2025), Everyone & Her Resemblances (Pamenar, 2024), Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023), and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022) ). She co-edited the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet’s Novel (Nightboat). Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.