Reading: Michael Dumanis, Lisa Olstein, Carlie Hoffman

Michael Dumanis is the author of two books of poems, Creature (Four Way Books, 2023), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press), awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and co-editor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande). Born in the Soviet Union, he lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and teaches at Bennington College, where he also serves as editor of Bennington Review. www.michaeldumanis.com

Lisa Olstein is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Dream Apartment (Copper Canyon Press, 2023), and two books of nonfiction. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, Lannan Residency Fellowship, Hayden Carruth Award, and Writers League of Texas Award. She is a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. https://www.lisaolstein.com/

Carlie Hoffman is the author of When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers & Authors Gold Award in poetry and a finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. She is the translator of White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions) and Selma Meerbaum Eisinger’s Blütenlese (forthcoming with World Poetry Books). Her honors include a 92Y “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Poets & Writers Amy Award and her work has been published or is forthocming in Poetry Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, Jewish Currents, The Slowdown, Columbia Journal, New England Review, and elsewhere. Carlie is the founding editor and Editor in Chief of Small Orange Journal. carliehoffman.com