Name: Hybrid | Poet Quartet: Amie Whittemore, Daniel Tobin, Leah Nieboer, Sandy Hiortdahl
Start: 2024-10-06T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-06T17:30:00-04:00
Location: 55 Haywood St, Asheville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28801

Hybrid | Poet Quartet: Amie Whittemore, Daniel Tobin, Leah Nieboer, Sandy Hiortdahl

Free event. Please register to join us live online or in-person at Malaprop's: https://www.malaprops.com/node/55289
Join us for our monthly poetry reading series coordinated by Mildred Barya. This month, we welcome Amie Whittemore, Daniel Tobin, Leah Nieboer, and Sandy Hiortdahl.
Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections: Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press), Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books) and Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press, 2024). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. For more, visit amiewhittemore.com.
Daniel Tobin is the author of nine poetry books, including From Nothing, winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award, and Blood Labors, named one of the Best Poetry Books of the Year 2018 by the New York Times and The Washington Independent Review of Books. His poetry has won many awards, among them the Massachusetts Book Award, the Merringoff Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. For more, visit https://www.danieltobin.org/
Leah Nieboer’s first collection of poetry, SOFT APOCALYPSE, won the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2023), and was named one of the top ten debut collections of 2023 by Poets & Writers Magazine. Her work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Western Humanities Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She’s a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and winner of the 2022 Mountain West Writers’ Contest in Poetry. For more, visit https://www.leahnieboer.com
Sandy Hiortdahl is an academic, poet, and fiction writer. The recipient of the Sophie Kerr Prize, The Ghost Mountain Award, and several distinctions from Pen2Paper, she has a Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. She teaches writing and literature at Northeast State Community College in East Tennessee. Her publications include a scholarly book, Grendel Recast in John Gardner’s Novel and Beowulf, and various works in journals. Hang Five is her first collection of poetry.