We couldn’t be happier to host two brilliant & beloved poets for the November edition of What The Universe Is! Come through for the lush, electric poems and stay for the fierce tenderness & tender fierceness.

Gustavo Hernandez is the author of the poetry collection Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press 2021) and the chapbooks Form His Arms and Little Fleece (Ghost City Press). His work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Slowdown Podcast, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, as well as various literary journals across the country. Hernandez was born in Jalisco, Mexico and was raised in Santa Ana, California, where he still resides.

Diane Seuss is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent collection is frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press 2021), winner of the PEN/Voelcker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf Press 2018), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Four-Legged Girl (Graywolf Press 2015) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (University of Massachusetts Press), received the Juniper Prize. Her sixth collection, Modern Poetry, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2024. Seuss was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. She received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021. Seuss was raised by a single mother in rural Michigan, which she continues to call home.

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