An Evening of Poetry: Julie Carr & Kate Colby with Peter Gizzi

Julie Carr’s recent books are The Garden (Overflow, book one); Underscore; Mud, Blood, & Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, & Spiritualism in the American West. Her co-translations of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory and The Book of Skies, were published by Commune Editions & Pamenar Press. Books two and three of Overflow will be published sequentially over the next few years. She lives in Denver where she co-runs Counterpath, teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder, & hosts the podcast “Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone.”

Kate Colby's books of poetry include I Mean and Reverse Engineer. A book of lyric prose, Paradoxx, just came out with Essay Press and was a 2025 Notable Book at Literary Hub. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room, and her recent writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Harper’s, Literary Hub, The Nation and Paris Review. She lives in Providence.

Peter Gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently FIERCE ELEGY, Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award (2023); NOW IT’S DARK (2020); and ARCHEOPHONICS, a Finalist for the National Book Award (2016); all from Wesleyan. In 2024 Penguin UK published an expanded edition of FIERCE ELEGY (Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize). He is the series editor of The Collected Works of Jack Spicer, now in 4 volumes. He teaches Poetry and Poetics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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