Join Commonweal and friends for an intimate gathering to celebrate the publication of Boxed Juice, Danielle Chapman’s new collection of poems in the Red Room at KGB Bar in New York City. In conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama, who will also read from his forthcoming Kitchen Hymns.
Commonweal Conversations:
Boxed Juice by Danielle Chapman
Wednesday, January 15
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St. NYC
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. ET
RSVP at cwlmag.org/boxedjuice.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is recommended but not required since space is limited. Books will be available for purchase, or can be found online here.
About Boxed Juice
Boxed Juice is a rare and original work that makes clear why Danielle Chapman is so vital to contemporary poetry. Spontaneous and indelible, enchanting and disillusioned, extravagant and direct, these poems reveal what Chapman sees from within our roles that our culture often renders invisible or ridiculous—mother, caregiver, Christian mystic, literary wife. Boxed Juice distills Chapman’s craft into a miracle of resilience. Danielle Chapman’s poems are those of a spirit in whom the experience is saved by the music that it yields.
About Danielle Chapman
Danielle Chapman is a poet, nonfiction writer, and lecturer in English at Yale University. Her previous collection of poems, Delinquent Palaces, was published in 2015, and her memoir, Holler: A Poet Among Patriots, was released in 2023. She currently teaches Shakespeare and creative writing, and lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband, Christian Wiman, and their twin daughters, Fiona and Eliza.
About Kitchen Hymns
Kitchen Hymns is structured like a ghost Mass, where even if God is a “favorite emptiness,” longing still has things to say. A study in lyric address, Kitchen Hymns speaks to a shifting “you”: an unknown you; the strange you; a lover, a hated other; the you of erotic desire; the you of creation and destruction. Large themes are informed by and contained in a poetics of observation, humor, trauma, dialogics, lament, rage and praise.
About Pádraig Ó Tuama
Pádraig Ó Tuama is the author of the poetry collections Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press, 2025); Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (Canterbury Press, 2017); Sorry for Your Troubles (Canterbury Press, 2013); and Readings from the Books of Exile(Canterbury Press, 2012), all published in the United Kingdom. He is also the editor of the anthology Poetry Unbound (W. W. Norton, 2022) and of the memoir In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015), a book of spiritual reflection.
