Pizza & Poetry with Emily Hyland
Old Town Books 130 S Royal St, Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Old Town Books
Old Town Books
Join us at the bookstore for a special night of pizza and poetry!
Poet Emily Hyland will discuss her new collection Divorced Business Partners and talk combining entrepreneurship and the writing life.
Pizza will be provided by Emmy’s Squared on King Street!
About the Author:
Emily Hyland’s debut collection, Divorced Business Partners, is forthcoming with Howling Bird Press in October 2024. Her second collection, Post-Mastectomy Poems, is forthcoming with Cornerstone Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press in September 2026. Hyland's poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Frontier Poetry, and The Hollins Critic, among others. She earned her MFA in poetry and her MA in English education from Brooklyn College. Her cookbook, Emily: The Cookbook, was published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, in 2018. Hyland is the eponymous co-founder of the international restaurant groups Pizza Loves Emily + Emmy Squared Pizza. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she writes and teaches at Yogasource, a beloved local studio that she co-owns and directs. emilyhyland.com /emmysquaredpizza.com / pizzalovesemily.com
About the book:
Divorced Business Partners is the debut poetry collection of Emily Hyland, a love story that follows the tender, brutal, routine, awkward and aching unraveling of a marriage. While building what would become a successful restaurant, Hyland maps the disintegration of the couple’s primal bond. Her evocative narrative voice and unvarnished portrayals reveal the power of poetry to lead us inward. How does grief find us in the smallest moments? What is family when it’s broken? This vivid portrait reflects the jagged path of divorce leading unexpectedly to a new kind of relationship.
