November’s installment of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series is a celebration of the world I’m thankful for — a world in which incredibly smart, warm, and generous poets write books and share their work with the world. I hope you’ll come through and help constitute an appreciative audience for our poets.

E. Hughes is the author of the poetry collection Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water (Haymarket Books 2024). They received their MFA in poetry and MA in English Literature from the Litowitz Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in Guernica Magazine, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast Magazine, Colorado Review, and The Rumpus—among others. They are a Cave Canem fellow and were a semifinalist in the 2022 and 2023 92Y Discovery Contest, and longlisted for the 2021 Granum Fellowship Prize. Currently, Hughes is a PhD student in Philosophy at Emory University.   

Suzanne Frischkorn is a Cuban American poet and essayist. She is the author of four poetry books, most recently Whipsaw (Anhinga Press, 2024), and Fixed Star (JackLeg Press, 2022), as well as five chapbooks. She’s the recipient of The Writer’s Center Emerging Writers Fellowship for her book, Lit Windowpane, the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, and a Connecticut Individual Artist Fellowship. Her poems have recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Salamander, South Dakota Review, and Latino Poetry: A Library of America Anthology. She is an editor at $–Poetry is Currency, and an assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org. 

Registration is easy and quick at bit.ly/WTUINov2024.