Booking & Contact
Blue Flower Arts is a literary speaker’s agency, dedicated to the beauty of words.
We are proud to exclusively represent acclaimed, inspiring, and thought-provoking poets and writers for readings, lectures, and appearances. We are equally proud to have established strong, long-lasting relationships with venues across the country and around the globe. If you are new to our agency: welcome. If you have collaborated with Blue Flower Arts before: welcome back.
We are here to help. To request booking information or to discuss the needs of your event, please call or write. We promise a prompt and gracious reply. Blue Flower authors are available to present at colleges and universities, festivals, conferences, theaters, corporations, distinguished arts and humanities lecture series, and private events. Whatever your needs, we bring years of experience to bear in helping to create the best possible program for you.
If you would like to discuss ideas and recommendations, we’re happy to brainstorm to find the best artist for your needs. We excel at connecting the right person with the right venue and placing authors within a specific theme, whether it is human rights, sustainability, literacy, diversity, LGBTQ studies, or faith. Be sure to scroll through our list of subject categories and check out our First Year Experience, One Book, and Common Read Programs page. To obtain fee and honorarium information, please give us a call to discuss the details.
What if you are looking for an author or speaker who is not on our roster? You need not look any further. We hold relationships with many other authors, publishers, and agencies, and you may work through Blue Flower Arts to secure the speaker you desire; we will be able to broker the engagement at no extra cost to you.
Our full roster is easily viewed below. On each individual artist’s page, you will find a narrative bio, short bio, writing samples, relevant links, videos, and high-resolution author photos and book jacket images for easy downloading. We hope you will take some time to peruse our website and perhaps discover some new artists for your program. If you are ready to make a firm booking, our website now offers the option to fill out a convenient firm offer form available on every page of the site. Of course, you may still simply email us the pertinent information.
Blue Flower Arts is a personal, hands-on company. We care about our artists, and we care about you. Advocating for poetry and literature is our mission. With the power and grace of the spoken word, we take that first to heart and then into the world—together with you. Contact us so that we may begin.
Alison Granucci, President & Owner
Anya Backlund, Vice President & Speakers Representative
Barbara Fenig, Speakers Representative
Hannah Brattesani, Contracts Administrator
Shannon Hearn, Website Manager
Speaker Representation
We regret that we are not accepting unsolicited queries for representation at this time. However, please feel free to call us if you have questions.
- Chris Abani
- Elizabeth Acevedo
- Diane Ackerman
- Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez
- Osama Alomar
- Molly Antopol
- Simon Armitage
- Peter Balakian
- Coleman Barks
- Samiya Bashir
- Jill Bialosky
- Frank Bidart
- Eula Biss
- Sherwin Bitsui
- Richard Blanco
- Amy Bloom
- Daniel Borzutzky
- Julian Talamantez Brolaski
- Jericho Brown
- Augusten Burroughs
- Stephanie Burt
- Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
- Tina Chang
- Chen Chen
- Geffrey Davis
- Kwame Dawes
- Natashia Deón
- W. S. Di Piero
- Bryan Doerries
- Mark Doty
- Andre Dubus III
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Camille Dungy
- Cornelius Eady
- Katja Esson
- Beth Ann Fennelly
- Nick Flynn
- Carolyn Forché
- Aminatta Forna
- Josh Fox
- John Freeman
- Mary Gaitskill
- Forrest Gander
- Cristina García
- Natalie Goldberg
- Adam Gopnik
- Jorie Graham
- Sara Gruen
- Joy Harjo
- Terrance Hayes
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Brenda Hillman
- Pam Houston
- Marie Howe
- Vanessa Hua
- Noah Hutton
- Major Jackson
- Jonathan M. Katz
- Ted Kooser
- Deborah Landau
- Li-Young Lee
- Nikola Madzirov
- Taylor Mali
- Hisham Matar
- Jamaal May
- Heather McHugh
- Erika Meitner
- Dunya Mikhail
- Rajiv Mohabir
- Rick Moody
- Honor Moore
- Valzhyna Mort
- Sir Andrew Motion
- Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Eileen Myles
- Okey Ndibe
- Marilyn Nelson
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Gregory Orr
- Ladan Osman
- Alicia Ostriker
- Molly Peacock
- Patrick Phillips
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- Katha Pollitt
- Francine Prose
- Ernesto Quiñonez
- Claudia Rankine
- Robin Robertson
- Roxana Robinson
- Sapphire
- George Saunders
- Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
- Philip Schultz
- Tim Seibles
- Vijay Seshadri
- Solmaz Sharif
- Charles Simic
- Maggie Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- The Typewriter Project
- Michael Thomas
- Gioia Timpanelli
- Daniel Torday
- Natasha Trethewey
- Brian Turner
- Mai Der Vang
- Jenny Xie
- Lidia Yuknavitch
- Adam Zagajewski
- Javier Zamora
- Raúl Zurita