Molly Peacock is a distinguished American-Canadian poet and biographer, author of eight volumes of poetry, recently The Widow’s Crayon Box (W.W. Norton) and two notable biographies, The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 (A Globe and Mail, Economist, Irish Times, London Evening Standard, and Sunday Telegraph book of the year) and Flower Diary. A Leon Levy Biography Fellow, co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New York’s subways, and originator of The Best Canadian Poetry series, Peacock’s poetry appears in A Century of Poetry from the New Yorker and The Oxford Book of American Poetry.
At the Library, Peacock will work on The Poet in the Herbarium, a nonfiction journey through four plant libraries in Paris, Kyoto, New York, and Toronto, exploring the intersection of poetry and botany through historical specimens and contemporary research.