More ‘Things Taking Place’: Writing in May’s Wake How do literary gifts of a family display themselves over generations? Following the prestigious poet May Swenson are two brothers, who took up the craft late in life to write in contrasting styles, and a nephew, just now emerging as a biting social critic, essayist, and fiction writer. They will read from their own works and from May Swenson’s half a century of poetry which has appeared in many books and national periodicals.

Paul Swenson, Corwin Swenson, Roy Swenson