Please join us next Saturday November 23 at 3pm for this special event during Astrid Dick's exhibition. Four poets, including the co-editors, of the new collection, Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry (MIT Press, 2024), will share their poetry along with Astrid Dick's work.

"Other Influences: The Poets" Brenda Coultas, Marcella Durand, Jennifer Firestone, Tracie Morris Saturday, November 23, 3pm

Brenda Coultas is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently, The Writing of an Hour, published by Wesleyan University Press in 2022.

Marcella Durand is the co-editor, with Jennifer Firestone, of Other Influences. Her new collection of poetry, A Winter Triangle, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press in September 2025 as the 2024 Poetic Justice Institute Prize Winner.

Jennifer Firestone is the co-editor, with Marcella Durand, of Other Influences and author of several books of poetry, including Story, Ten and Gates & Fields, and co-editor of Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community.

Tracie Morris is a professor of poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her most recent book is human/nature poems from Litmus Press, 2023.