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What The Universe Is: Jen Jabaily-Blackburn and Tobias Wray

Come celebrate the Summer Solstice with two poets who blaze as brightly as the June sun!

Twice selected for Best New Poets, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn’s most recent work is forthcoming/has appeared in Palette Poetry, Salamander, Fugue, Banshee, On the Seawall, Couplet Poetry, Indiana Review, Radar Poetry, The Common, and Massachusetts Review. Her first book of poems, Girl in a Bear Suit, is the winner of the 2023 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in 2024. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her family, where she is Program & Outreach coordinator for the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.

Tobias Wray’s No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man won the CSU Poetry Center’s Lighthouse Poetry Series Competition. His work has found homes in Blackbird, Hunger Mountain, Meridian, Verse Daily, and The Georgia Reviewas well as Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (Autumn House Press)A 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow, he teaches at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. Reach him at www.tobiaswray.com.

Get yourself registered at bit.ly/WTUIJun2023 or run the risk of a life filled with regret.