Join us for a night of poetry featuring visiting writer Chet'la Sebree + Florida writer Sarah Carey.

The event will be live (in person) and streamed on Instagram and Facebook.

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About the poets:

Chet'la Sebree is the author of Field Study (FSG Originals, June 2021), winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is also the author of Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry (2020). Most recently, her poem “And the Record Repeats” appeared in Dr. Ibram X. Kendi & Dr. Keisha N. Blain’s Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. Chet’la has received fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, Hedgebrook, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, MacDowell, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Chet’la’s poetry and prose have appeared in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, wildness, Guernica, Poetry International, and The Account, as well as other journals and anthologies. She is an assistant professor of English and the Director for the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University.  

Sarah Carey is a graduate of the Florida State University creative writing program. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Five Points, SWWIM Every Day, Split Rock Review, Atlanta Review, Grist and elsewhere. Her book reviews have appeared recently or are pending in Salamander, EcoTheo Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and the Los Angeles Review. Sarah's poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Orison Anthology. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Heart Contracts (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and Accommodations (2019), winner of the Concrete Wolf Poetry Series Chapbook Award. Visit her at SarahKCarey.com or on Twitter @SayCarey1