An Evening with Joyce Englander Levy and Ellene Glenn Moore

BOOKS & BOOKS IS PROUD TO PRESENT AN EVENING WITH JOYCE ENGLANDER LEVY AND ELLENE GLENN MOORE DISCUSSING THEIR CHAPBOOKS: PIER 40 AND PASSAGE. ***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event. ABOUT PIER 40: Pier 40, by Joyce Englander Levy, is a lyrical poem that invites readers to consider what treasures they can leave behind for someone else to find. The narrative takes place on a walk with Levy and her young children through the West Village, in which you feel you’re having a conversation you’ve been longing to have as the narrator reflects on what she grew up imaging for her life compared to parenting through the pandemic. The dreams of adulthood meet reality—with imaginative children to provide context and comic relief. The narrator takes strides to understand the nature of human experience through personal introspection and meditative observations on the changing world we inhabit. The chapbook is structured in distinct sections, where scenes, memories, and reflections are braided together in a hybrid of poetry and essay form. As the narrator pulls apart her past, the threads of the story weave together and readers are inspired to think of their own relationships with ambition and contentment. ABOUT PASSAGE: Unfolding over the course of a single day, Passage is an account of the author’s thirtieth birthday aboard a sailboat as it makes its way from Nantucket Harbor to Menemsha Harbor. This long-form lyric essay charts the many passages of that day: civil dawn to astronomical dusk, one harbor to another, one decade of life to the next, present circumstance to distant memory, external landscape to internal obsession. It tells, in the end, the story of the self as a threshold through which the mind must pass on its journey to understand itself. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Joyce Englander Levy is a mother, writer, and poet, and she has taught yoga and meditation for over twenty years. She graduated Cum Laude from Miami University in 2003 with degrees in Psychology and Linguistics with a minor in Poetry, and she is working towards her MFA in Creative Writing at Florida International University. She is a volunteer reader at Only Poems, and the author of the Substack, Look Both Ways, which explores relationships between creativity and meditation. Pier 40 is her first published chapbook. Ellene Glenn Moore is an American writer living in Zürich. She is the author of Passage (Orison Books, 2025), winner of the Orison Chapbook Prize, and How Blood Works (Kent State University Press, 2021), winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Ellene holds degrees in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University, Florida International University, and Bath Spa University, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on hybrid genre texts and hybridity as creative practice. She has been the recipient of a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, a scholarship to the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and a residency at The Studios of Key West. Ellene’s poetry, prose, and translation work has appeared in West Branch, The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Brevity, and elsewhere.