February 15, 2026 – Virtual

Jake Skeets is the author of two books of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award, and the highly anticipated second collection, Horses. His work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Other honors include an NEA Grant for Arts Projects, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is the third Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

 

A 2023 New Jersey Council on the Arts Poetry Fellow, Robin Rosen Chang is the author of the full-length collection, The Curator’s Notes (2021). Her poems appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Plume, and have been featured on Verse Daily. She was an honorable mention for the Spoon River Review’s 2019 Editor’s Prize and the winner of the Oregon Poetry Association’s Fall 2018 Poet’s Choice Award. She has an MFA in poetry from The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is a co-founder and director of The Fields Poetry Reading Series and teaches writing at Montclair State University.