10/07/2026
Thursday October 22!
Join us for Deep Dive, a literary reading series in the library, hosted by Mandy Kahn!
With visiting poets Anders Carlson-Wee and Suzanne Lummis.
Suzanne Lummis’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and three Knopf “Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets” anthologies: Poems of the American West, Killer Verse, and Monster Verse. Her collections include Idiosyncrasies (1984), In Danger (1999), and Open 24 Hours (2014), which received the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize from Lynx House Press. She teaches poetry through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and she is the co-editor with Henry Morro of The Pacific Coast Poetry Series from Beyond Baroque Books, and the editor of its first publication, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. Lummis was the 2018-19 City of Los Angeles Fellow, an endowment from the Cultural Affairs Department allowing mid-career artists and writers to complete major projects.
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. He is the editor of the anthology Best New Poets 2024. His work has appeared in POETRY, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, Harvard Review, BuzzFeed, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Camargo Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, he is the winner of the Poetry International Prize. His work has been translated into Chinese. Anders holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University.
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