Tribute Reading for Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno

Join us this Sunday with poets and friends who will read Christopher’s poems and pay tribute to his life and celebrate his work: Lisa Bourbeau, Cliff Enders, Norman Fischer, Michael Franco, John Ninso High, Andrea Clark Libin, Uche Nduka, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Simon Pettet, Imogene Pruitt-Spence.

Christopher was a poet, translator, biographer, librettist, memoirist, painter, architect, scholar, professor, a pianist, as well as a fabulous cook. He was a person of many lives, not only in his prolific and fecund outpouring of imagination, nor in the all the countries he traveled and lived—nor the innumerable people he counseled and taught, but also in the many moments when he walked up to the edge of death—only to surprise us all and come back to write another brilliant book, as he has in gifting us yet one more before departing this life: Anything You Want (published posthumously by Wet Cement Press). In these final poems he…