Carrie Olivia Adams & Nathan Hoks in conv with Danielle Wheeler

Carrie Olivia Adams will read from her new poetry collection, The Book of Marys and Glaciers, and Nathan Hoks will read from his new paperback edition of his poetry collection, Moony Days of Being. They will be joined in conversation with Danielle Wheeler. Described by Tupelo Press as a collection of poems that “engag with deserts, consumerism, Alaskan ice, religious icons, and more,” The Book of Marys and Glaciers is praised by Marisa Siegel of The Rumpus, who says, “Adams challenges her readers to observe intensely the world around us, to decide for ourselves which particulars are clues to be deciphered and which questions are asking for our answers;” meanwhile, Kristina Marie Darling of the Colorado Review says: “Adams offers a graceful synthesis of poetic and scientific language. Everyday experiences become a locus for vastly different discourses—literary, scientific, and historical—which overlap and intersect as they are inscribed upon a single concrete image.” Moony Days of Being by Nathan Hoks was the winner of the 2017 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Recently reprinted, it’s described by Raincoast Group as “Poems that inhabit a world of flammable metaphors and spiritual fog machines, delivering poems that are part elegy, part glitch, part lunar broadcast… is a surreal and tender reckoning with absurdity, memory, and the unravelings of daily life. These odes, self-portraits, and dedicatory poems fuse humor with emotional urgency as they wrestle with parenthood, intimate loss, and ecological and political despair. The book opens in a place of existential estrangement and gradually adopts an elegiac and relational tone, speaking to family, poets, and imagined interlocutors with uncertainty and longing” (raincoastgroup.com). Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago where she is the poetry editor for Black Ocean and the Promotions and Marketing Communications Director for the University of Chicago Press. Her books include Be the thing of memory, Operating Theater, Forty-One Jane Doe’s, and Intervening Absence, in addition to the chapbooks Proficiency Badges, Grapple, Overture in the Key of F, and A Useless Window. She is the curator of the Poetry & Biscuits house reading series and the newsletter of the same name, and when she’s not making poems, she’s probably making biscuits. Nathan Hoks is the author of The Narrow Circle, Reveilles, and Nests in Air, the latter also published by Black Ocean. He has also published translations of work by Vicente Huidobro, Henri Michaux, and Christian Dotremont. He teaches at the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Danielle was the 2010-2011 Rona Jaffe fellow in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned her MFA. Since that time, she’s been an online course designer and instructor of writing, literature, rhetoric, creative writing, and business writing for several institutions, including the IWYP, the IYWS, the Department of Rhetoric, and the Certificate in Writing at the U...