NOVEMBER 10 — Zoe Tuck leads a discussion of Alejandra Pizarnik’s “[All night I hear the noise of water sobbing.]”, followed by a short reading of her own work.

Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches through the Threshold Academy and hosts “The But Also Reading Series" with Britt Billmeyer-Finn. She co-curates Belladonna* Collaborative's "Close Distances Reading Series" and co-edits Hot Pink Magazine. Zoe is the author of Soft Investigations (Daisy Mayhem Books 2019) and Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light 2014). An excerpt of her epic poem, The Book of Bella, is forthcoming in 2022 from DoubleCross Press. Find out more at zoetuck.com.

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OCTOBER 27 — Laura Moriarty leads a discussion of Bhanu Kapil’s “Handwritten Preface to Reverse the Book”, followed by a short reading of her own work.

Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Northern California where she has lived since 1964. She attended UC Berkeley. She was the Director of the American Poetry Archives at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University for many years. She has taught at Naropa University and Mills College. She was Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution for two decades. Her recent books include Personal Volcano, Who That Divines, A Tonalist, and A Semblance: Selected and New Poems, 1975-2007. Last February she had her first show of visual art, rapt glass, at the Right Window in San Francisco.

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OCTOBER 13 — Wendy Xu leads a discussion of Bei Dao’s “Black Map” (trans. Eliot Weinberger), followed by a short reading of her own work.

Wendy Xu is most recently the author of The Past (Wesleyan, 2021) and Phrasis, named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Granta, Poetry, Tin House, Conjunctions, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and widely elsewhere. She is assistant professor of writing at The New School, where she teaches poetry.

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SEPTEMBER 29 — Eleni Sikelianos leads a discussion of a picture poem by Alice Notley, followed by a short reading of her own work.

Eleni Sikelianos was born and grew up in California, and has lived in New York, Paris, Athens, Colorado, and now, Providence, where she lives around the corner from the Waldrops. She is the author of ten books of poetry, including the forthcoming Your Kingdom (winter 2023), and two hybrid multi-memoirs (The Book of Jon, from City Lights, and You Animal Machine, from Coffee House Press). Her writings, frequently drawing on ecopoetics, biology and a broad sense of possible lineages, have been widely anthologized and translated. As a translator, she has worked on texts by Jacques Roubaud, Sabine Macher, and Mohamed Leftah, among others.

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