Winter 2024 Wilder Words, 24PearlStreet Faculty Reading
Thursday, January 18, 2024
6-7:30 PM
Wilder Words is a seasonal tradition organized by the 24PearlStreet Online Writing Program. The event will feature four captivating voices, namely Erin Adair-Hodges, Anders Carlson-Wee, Krysten Hill, and Sean Singer, who will be teaching with us for Winter 2024. The event will take place on Thursday, January 18th, at 6 PM EST. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required to receive a Zoom link.
About Our Readers
Erin Adair-Hodges is the author of Let’s All Die Happy, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Every Form of Ruin, both from the Pitt Poetry Series. Recipient of the Allen Tate Prize and the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, her work has been featured in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, Sewanee Review, and more. She has received fellowships and scholarships from the Adirondack Center for Writing, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, and Vermont Studio Center. Born and raised in New Mexico, she now lives with her family in Kansas City, Missouri.
Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of Disease of Kings (W.W. Norton, 2023), The Low Passions (W.W. Norton, 2019), a New York Public Library Book Group Selection, and Dynamite (Bull City Press, 2015), winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Washington Post, Harvard Review, BuzzFeed, American Poetry Review, and many other publications. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is the winner of the Poetry International Prize. Anders is represented by Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents and lives in Los Angeles.
Krysten Hill is the author of How Her Spirit Got Out (Aforementioned Productions, 2016), which received a Jean Pedrick Prize in 2017. Her work has been featured in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series, Poetry Magazine, PANK, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Winter Tangerine Review, and elsewhere. She received a Vermont Studio Center Residency in 2023, a Mass Cultural Council Poetry Fellowship in 2020, and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in 2016. Krysten is an educator and writer who has featured at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Boston Book Festival, Blacksmith House, New Hampshire Poetry Festival, and elsewhere.
Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022) which won the 2022 National Jewish Book award. He runs a manuscript consultation service at www.seansingerpoetry.com
At 24PearlStreet, we believe everyone has a story to tell, and we are here to help you tell yours. Whether you are a seasoned writer or just starting, our online writing program has something for everyone. From poetry to prose, fiction to non-fiction, our courses are designed to help you refine your craft and take your writing to the next level.
Sponsored partly by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Mass Cultural Council, and Mass Development.
