Wednesday February 25 * 7pm * Free / donations

Readings from two poets with recent Anthony Hecht Prize–winning collections from Waywiser Books will be followed by an installment of SEND WORD, a correspondence station. All supplies provided, and postcard-writing prompts will be available. Send someone you love (or your senator, or yourself) a letter today!

Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. Her artist’s books have been selected for exhibitions at Abecedarian Gallery and Asheville Bookworks, and new writing appears in the Georgia Review, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, and Orion. Her work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Marble House Project, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and she is the recipient of the Winter Anthology Award and a Literature Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. Bell teaches at UNC Wilmington and is the editor of Ecotone, the award-winning magazine of place-based writing. Her correspondence station, SEND WORD, appears at events in North Carolina and beyond. She lives with her family near what’s now called the Cape Fear River.

Hannah Louise Poston is a poet, essayist, and online content creator whose writing has appeared in several places, including Poetry Daily, Longreads, and The New York Times. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which she attended as the Thomas Wolfe Scholar in Creative Writing. Hannah has taught poetry and writing as the Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School, at The Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts, and at the University of Michigan, and she has taught Argentine tango in studios all over the country. For work she reviews makeup on YouTube and writes grants for climate activists. She is from the mountains of North Carolina and she currently lives in Maryland.