So much thanks to these poets for sharing their work and insights. Watch the reading and conversation here, recorded the night before the presidential election.
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Nicole Robinson is the author of Without a Field Guide (Unbound Edition Press, 2023), finalist for the Ohioana Book Award in poetry. She is the recipient of a 2024 Individual Excellence Award for poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and serves as the narrative medicine coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital.
Brent Armendinger is the author of Street Gloss (The Operating System, 2019) and The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), both of which were finalists for the California Book Award in Poetry. Brent teaches creative writing at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA, and lives in Los Angeles.
Rochelle Hurt the author of the poetry collections The J Girls: A Reality Show (Indiana University Press, 2022), In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street, 2016), and The Rusted City (White Pine, 2014). She lives in Orlando and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.
Maggie Anderson is former director of the Wick Poetry Center and author of several poetry collections and co-editor of several poetry anthologies. Her poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner and The Georgia Review, and have been set to music by contemporary composers, including Stephen Gryc, Monica Houghton, Anne LeBaron and John David Earnest. She is professor emerita of English at Kent State University, and lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
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