Poet and philosopher John Koethe will read from his newest book, Cemeteries and Galaxies, a collection of poems that "unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more" (macmillan.com), and Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Julie Hanson will read from her recent poetry collection, The Audible and the Evident, winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Heather Treseler of the LA Review of Books praises Cemeteries and Galaxies as a new collection that "looks upward at the most distant galaxies and downward at the inarticulate dead, continuing the central quest of his poetic work, which is examining—between the certainty of death and the unknowability of the universe—the nature of human selfhood, shorn of superstition," while Maggie Smith, bestselling poet and author of Good Bones and You Could Make This Place Beautiful, praises The Audible and the Evident as a collection that "not only gives pleasure but teaches the reader — about poem-making and about living this ‘real life.’"

John Koethe is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

Julie Hanson is the author of The Audible and the Evident and Unbeknownst, an Iowa Poetry Prize winner and 2012 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as publication in New Ohio Review, VOLT, Plume, and other journals. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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