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16th Annual Zócalo Book Prize Event
Americans love building walls, and not just on our international borders. Our houses are bigger and more fortress-like than ever before. We drive cars and trucks designed like mobile suits of armor. We consume media that reflects our point of view back to us, closing off dissenting voices. What are these walls doing to our country, our communities, and our minds? Can we stop building them, or even break them? And what might we put in their place? Johns Hopkins University anthropologist Anand Pandian, winner of the 2026 Zócalo Book Prize for Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down, visits Zócalo to share what he learned from talking to people across the country about what divides us and how we come together.
Zócalo Public Square is proud to award the 2026 Zócalo Poetry Prize to Deborah Ager, who will read her winning poem, “Letter from Indialantic,” live at our event.
The Jar, an organization that inspires you to connect to people like you and not like you, is co-presenting the 2026 Book Prize program. After the moderated conversation, we’ll jump into a reception that asks the audience to bring the evening’s ideas to life through The Jar’s Salon experience, where the walls between us come down in real time.
Stick around for book sales and author signings with Skylight Books.
The 2026 Zócalo Book and Poetry Prizes are generously sponsored by Tim Disney.
Event Links
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