Please join Poets & Writers
for an evening of poetry and conversation

featuring
MARIANNE BORUCH
winner of the 2026 Jackson Poetry Prize

in conversation with
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 | 7PM EDT
THE GREENE SPACE, NEW YORK CITY

This event will also be livestreamed. 

Tickets required. 

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The Jackson Poetry Prize, established in 2006 with a gift from the Liana Foundation, is sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc. and named for the John and Susan Jackson family. The award honors an American poet of exceptional talent. Learn more at pw.org. 

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MARIANNE BORUCH is author of eleven poetry collections, including Bestiary Dark (2021); The Anti-Grief (2019); Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing (2016); Cadaver, Speak (2014); and The Book of Hours (2011), all published by Copper Canyon Press. Her earlier collections include Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan University Press, 2010) and Poems: New and Selected (Oberlin College Press, 2004). 

Boruch has also written essays, including Sing by the Burying Ground (Northwestern, 2024), and memoir/hybrid memoir, including The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana University Press, 2011) and The Figure Going Imaginary (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). A recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bellagio Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Fulbright Scholar Program (Scotland, Australia, and, in 2027, Norway); and residencies from Colby College, the Anderson Center, the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Budapest, and at national parks, including Isle Royale and Denali. 

She founded Purdue University’s MFA program in creative writing in 1987 and has been an emeritus member of the faculty since 2018 after having taught there for over three decades. She has been on faculty in the low-residency Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers since 1988. Her work appears in the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, APR, the London Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.

PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA is a poet with interests in conflict, language, and religion. He presents Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios, and has published two anthologies (2022, 2025, both with W. W. Norton) from that podcast. In 2026 Copper Canyon Press will publish Love Between Men, his fifth poetry collection. A freelance artist, one of Ó Tuama’s projects is poet in residence with the Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Center at Columbia University. He serves as faculty at Yale Divinity School as a Professor in the practice of Spirituality. He splits his time between Belfast and New York City.