Please join us for the final installment of What The Universe Is: A Reading Series for the year 2022. This month we’ll celebrate two poets who will light up the December night like the stars they are!

Laura Minor won the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers As Mind Control, was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2022. She was also a finalist for the 2019 National Poetry Series and the winner of the 2019 ILA's Rita Dove Poetry Award. She currently teaches poetry at Oklahoma State University. 

Nathan McClain is the author of two collections of poetry — Previously Owned (2022) and Scale (2017) — both from Four Way Books. He is also a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Guesthouse, Poetry Northwest, Plume Anthology of Poetry 10, The Critical Flame, and The Common. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review.

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