Join us for a reading with poets Alex Mouw and Heather Sellers! Alex is a former Hope College student of Heather’s. Both are currently professors and authors of new poetry collections. They’ll be in conversation about the craft of poetry and writing, and the art of teaching and mentoring.

Heather and Alex will each read from their new collections, and a Q&A and book signing will follow the reading.

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About Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators:

A celebration of the everyday wildness in The Sunshine State.

Flowing along the subtropical waterways and rooted in the happenstance of our day-to-day experiences, award-winning poet Heather Sellers’ latest poetry collection, her fifth, Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators, presents radiant portraits of the people — and creatures — that she encounters in her wonderfully weird home state of Florida.

Drawn from the author’s daily observation journals, the collection’s sun-struck, open-hearted poems eavesdrop on conversations among neighbors and follow the quirky behaviors of humans—and other interesting animals—throughout the course of a year in The Sunshine State. And as increasingly powerful hurricanes brew in the background, the reader experiences fresh compassion for the fragile lives carved out of a fragile landscape. In the end, Sellers assures us that paying close attention, noticing wildness in the ordinary, and ultimately, tending our connections to each other, is what will see us through.

About the Author:

Heather Sellers is the author of five collections of poetry. Her new volume is Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators, a celebration of the everyday wildness and ecology in the Sunshine State. She taught creative writing for two decades at Hope College. Sellers’ memoir, You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, was an Oprah Magazine Book of the Month selection and Editors’ Choice at the New York Times Book Review. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, NPR, and Dateline. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Florida.

About The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey:

The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey confronts religious devotion as something you grasp and something that seizes you. Rooted in the landscape of West Michigan, these poems seek traces of the divine with keen attention to the natural world, science, and personal history. Yet amid ordinary lives and crises of faith, revelation descends unexpectedly, talons extended in frightful welcome. This book offers readers the taste of belief, its texture, and the way its convicted sight both distorts and illuminates. By turns meditative, ecstatic, and snarky, Alex Mouw’s poems capture the sermons and lamentations, the preachers and seekers, the politics and piety of midwestern evangelical Christianity.

About the Author:

Alex Mouw is the author of the poetry collection The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey, an examination of faith and ecology in the Midwest. His poetry and nonfiction appear in The Southern Review, The Christian Century, Literature & Theology, and other journals. An assistant professor of English at Samford University, he lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife and two children.

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