US launch of Christopher Cessac’s The Youngest Ocean at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Winner of the 13th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Christopher Cessac, will be introduced by the judge who awarded the prize, Sir Andrew Motion, and the two poets will take it in turns to read from their work at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The event will be introduced by Waywiser’s Editor in Chief, Philip Hoy.