Poet Maurice Manning will travel to Abraham Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC. There he will join virtually with poet Tracy K. Smith for a reading of their works from Lincoln’s bedroom. Smith is the author of Wade in the Water; Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award; and The Body’s Question, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is the editor of an anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, and the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, a finalist for the National Book Award. Manning’s first book, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, was selected by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Manning’s other collections include The Common Man, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, and One Man’s Dark. 7:30 p.m. $15 suggested, $5 minimum. www.folger.edu // @folgerlibrary