Robin Coste Lewis is the poet laureate of Los Angeles and a writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. Her first collection Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems was widely praised by critics and honored with the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Lewis discusses her poetry and reads from the collection. On November 16, 2017 Lewis gave a reading from Voyage of the Sable Venus as a guest of the Creative Writing Program.