We're delighted to host poets Monica Ferrell, Devon Walker-Figueroa, and Morgan Parker at H&H Books on Tuesday, May 12 at 7 PM. Monica, Devon, and Morgan will each present a short reading and discuss their work together. A Q&A and book signing will follow their discussion.
Monica’s new poetry collection, The Future, recently released in March 2026, will be available for purchase, as well as books by Devon (Lazarus Species) and Morgan (Magical Negro, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce).
In their starred review of The Future, Publishers Weekly raved, “In this long-anticipated follow-up to 2008’s Beasts for the Chase, Ferrell renders familiar literary tropes suddenly new, surprising, and dangerous again...'astonishingly exact' rules of decorum and décor give rise to boredom and, in the end, self-destructive impulses."
Registration is free or PWYC and highly recommended! An attendance count helps us organize our space and plan even more events for our community.
Questions? Email events@theheadandthehand.com.
About the Poets:
Monica Ferrell is the author of one novel and three books of poems, most recently The Future (March 2026) and You Darling Thing (Four Way Books, 2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and the Believer Book Award in Poetry and a New York Times New & Noteworthy selection. Her debut collection, Beasts for the Chase, was selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books and named a finalist for the Asian American Writers Workshop Prize in Poetry. Her novel The Answer Is Always Yes (Random House) was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year and a Borders Original Voices selection. She is a winner of the “Discovery”/The Nation contest and the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University as well as residencies from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Yaddo, and MacDowell. She has taught in the graduate creative writing programs of Columbia University and Bennington College and is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College (SUNY). Born in New Delhi, India, she lives in Vermont with her husband and two children.
Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author of Lazarus Species (Milkweed Editions, 2025), a current finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award in poetry, and of Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021). A winner of the National Poetry Series and the Levis Reading Prize, Philomath was the first poetry collection to be named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize.
Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the essay collection You Get What You Pay For, the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”