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Poets Hannah Bonner and Dan Wriggins will read from their debut poetry collections. 

Hannah Bonner will read from Another Woman, published by Eastover Press. Poet Carlie Hoffman writes, "A book of eros and 'wild risk,' Hannah Bonner's spellbinding debut, Another Woman, conjures 'a water so febrile it is almost fire.' In the aftermath of the end of a love affair, Bonner's speaker wonders tenderly about 'every startled animal' and what it means to be a woman in the world when carnality gives way to grief, shining starlight on the shadows to reveal the white peaches of 'white lies' and knowledge in the face of pain. The speaker in her fever dream takes us deeper into her desire: a dizzying phantasmagory where stars are feet flung out of windows as the 'sun kicks its heels' over the empty storefronts and fields of Arkansas. I am grateful for Bonner's fiercely intimate lyrics of womanhood, sexuality, loss, relief, and survival. Another Woman is hauntingly mesmerizing with poems of searing beauty, stellar power, and lyrical grace.”

Dan Wriggins will read from Prince of Grass, published by Dear Life Records. “Deft, deadpan, dystopian poems... shrink-wrapped surrealist novels. Wriggins has captured our dissociative moment's sense of overwhelm, its blitzkrieg of product placement and tech engulfment, its hailstorm of contradiction and paradox, its alienation and even its inverted longings and hopes ‘to have no faith and be proven wrong.’” —Amy Gerstler
Dan Wriggins is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in Poetry. He is a songwriter and frontman of the band Friendship.

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