12 March 2025, 6-7:30pm, UCO School III
Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, artist, editor and teacher. Her recent books of poetry include: Everyone & Her Resemblances (Pamenar, 2024), Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023), Practice Has No Sequel (Pamenar 2023), Letters Inscribed in Snow (Tinderbox 2023), and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022). In 2024 a solo show of her collage titled “On the Way to the Filmic Woods” was exhibited at the Brodsky Gallery at Kelly Writer’s House. She co-edited the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet’s Novel (Nightboat). Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for her collection The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Read from her work for Bernadette Mayer, Antideluvian Sonnets at Cordite Poetry Review and Amsterdam Review.
David Herd is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. His most recent collection, Walk Song (Shearsman) was a Book of the Year in the Australian Book Review and Through (Carcanet) was a Book of the Year in The Herald newspaper. He has given readings in Europe, North America, India and Australia, has held fellowships at George Mason University, Simon Fraser University and the Writing Center, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and in 2024 his work was the subject of an Almost Island Dialogue. His critical history, Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-war World: Making Space for the Human was shortlisted for the 2024 MSA Book Prize and will be published in paperback later this year. He teaches in the School of English at St Andrews and is co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales.