The 2021 season of What The Universe Is: A Reading Series is concluding with the inimitable poetic talent of Hannah Larrabee and Fred Joiner. Please join us on Thursday, December 9 at 7:30pm Eastern time as we celebrate surviving 2021 and charge up our poetic batteries for whatever 2022 might hold. And you won’t find better sources of renewable energy and pure power than Hannah and Fred!
Hannah Larrabee’s Wonder Tissue won the Airlie Press Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for a Massachusetts Book Award. She has chapbooks out from Seven Kitchens Press and Nixes Mate, and she's guest editing a climate change-themed issue of Nixes Mate Review for release in early 2022. Hannah was selected by NASA to see the James Webb Space Telescope in person and her poetry was displayed at Goddard Space Center. Next year, she’ll be sailing around Svalbard with artists and scientists as part of the Arctic Circle Residency. Hannah has an MFA from The University of New Hampshire where she studied with Charles Simic. (she/they) www.hannahlarrabee.com
Fred Joiner is a poet and curator living in Carrboro, NC. Joiner is the Poet Laureate of Carrboro, NC. He has published and presented his poetry nationally and internationally. As curator of visual art and public programming, Joiner has worked with the Smithsonian, The Phillips Collection, Medina Galerie (Bamako), Belfast Exposed (Belfast) and others. Joiner’s writing is published or is forthcoming in publications by the National Endowment of the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Phillips Collection. Joiner is a 2019 Academy of American Poets Poets Laureate Fellow, the Board Chair of the Orange County Arts Commission Artists Advisory Board and a Board member of the American Poetry Museum and Arch Development Corporation.