September 7: Shira Dentz, Julie Carr, & Phillis Levin

Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (Astrophil Books), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize; the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Dialogos); how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), a National Poetry Series and APR/Honickman finalist; door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press); black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman Books, UK), selected by Poets & Writers in their Annual Ten Debut Poets feature; and two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Shira is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction, and an NEA/NYS arts grant for an image/text work-in-progress. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the University of Utah, and currently lives and works in upstate NY.

Julie Carr’s most recent books are Underscore; Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West; Real Life: An Installation; Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein; and the essay collection, Someone Shot My Book. She lives in Denver where she co-founded and helps to run Counterpath and teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Phillis Levin is the author of An Anthology of Rain: Poems (Barrow Street Press, April 2025). She is a singular poet whose fifth collection, Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and received a starred review from Library Journal, which named the book one of its Top Picks in Poetry. Phillis is also the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, which is highly influential and taught worldwide. A Guggenheim Fellow, her other honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award for Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.