The Poetry Gallery: Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Poetry reading in the galleries of We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment with Sasha Debevec-McKenney, a poet who studies the presidents. Long-term embodied research into key sites of American national identity, visiting all of the existing presidential libraries and writing poems in response. Poems consider American history and the stories we tell about the nation. Meet-and-greet book signing follows. Kicks off The Poetry Gallery presented by the RCAH Center for Poetry, bringing poetry into conversation with art and the American experience. Debut collection Joy Is My Middle Name won the 2026 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize. 2020-2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at University of Wisconsin and 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Poems in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Drift and Granta. Admission is free; registration required. At MSU Broad Art Museum, 547 E. Circle Dr., East Lansing.