Twin Cities Book Festival

Dobby Gibson
In conversation with Carmen Giménez
sponsored by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Books, and Rain Taxi

Dobby Gibson's latest collection, Hold Everything (Graywolf Press), moves at the speed of breaking news as it makes a plea for grace in a world running short on mercy. Its epistolary poems put us in correspondence with Edo-period poets and 1980s hair-metal gods, artificial intelligence and hotel soaps. Gibson’s poems demonstrate the many ways a deeper attention to the marvels and horrors of the contemporary world can form a kind of civil disobedience. Hold Everything gathers up the harbingers of our turbulent world as it reaches for hope and evinces wonder.

The author of four previous books of poetry, including It Becomes You (Graywolf), Gibson lives in St. Paul, MN. At this special book launch, he will be in conversation with Carmen Giménez, Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press and the author of several acclaimed poetry collections as well. This Bookend Event of the 2024 Twin Cities Book Festival celebrates the arts of poetry, publishing, and partnership in one fell swoop—not to be missed!

Location: Target Performance Hall