BookWoman 2nd Thursday Virtual Poetry featuring AE Hines and Emily Ransdell

BookWoman is delighted to welcome poets AE Hines and Emily Ransdell as our features for the Second Thursday Poetry Reading and Open Mic. This is a Zoom-only event. Cindy Huyser hosts and a "round robin" open mic follows the features.

Please be sure to log into Zoom with your email and password prior to accessing the meeting. And please note that BookWoman expects to return to our in-store / Zoom hybrid format later in the summer--thanks for your patience!

AE Hines is the author of Adam in the Garden (Charlotte Lit Press, 2024) and Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag, 2021). He has won the Red Wheelbarrow Prize and Palette Poetry’s Love and Eros Prize, and has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. His poems have been widely published in such journals as The Southern Review, Rattle, The Sun, Prairie Schooner and Alaska Quarterly. And his literary criticism can be found in American Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Rain Taxi, and Northwest Review. He received his MFA from Pacific University, and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina and Medellín, Colombia. www.aehines.net

Emily Ransdell’s debut collection, One Finch Singing, won the 2022 Lewis Award from Concrete Wolf Press and was published in 2023. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, Tar River Poetry, Terrain, River Styx, CALYX, American Life in Poetry, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize and the New Millennium Writing Award, and was runner-up for the Prime Number Poetry Prize from Press 53 as well as the New Letters Poetry Prize. She divides her time between Camas, Washington and Manzanita, Oregon, where she teaches online poetry classes through the Hoffman Center for the Arts.

Praise for One Finch Singing:

• "One Finch Singing is a terrific book of poems that tells one woman’s story but tells it slant, in poems made of both fire and ice.”— Dorianne Laux, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and author of Only as the day is Long."
• "Emily Ransdell’s reflections on aging and the rehearsal of life’s challenges are both at once witty and deeply affecting for their honesty and beauty.” — Kwame Dawes, author of UnHistory, co-written with John Kinsella.

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