April 19 – In-Person

Pamela Alexander’s Left won the 2024 Beloit Poetry Journal chapbook competition. She has four previous collections, including Slow Fire (Ausable/Copper Canyon). Earlier books won the Yale Younger Poets and Iowa Poetry Prizes, and her work has appeared in many periodicals, most recently Plume, descant, Ocean State Review, Red Letters and Southern Poetry Review. She taught creative writing at M.I.T. and Oberlin College and served on the editorial boards of Wesleyan University Press and FIELD magazine. Honors include fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center, MacDowell, and the Bunting Institute.

K. T. Landon’s debut collection, Abide, was selected by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize and will be published this fall by Ashland Poetry Press. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sun, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, North American Review, and Best New Poets, among others. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a reader for Lily Poetry Review.