A poetry reading by Professor of Poetry, Janice N. Harrington and award-winning poet, Angie Estes.
Janice N. Harrington is the author of three poetry books including the award-winning Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone and eight celebrated children’s books, together with the popular favorites The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County, Catching a Storyfish, and Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Life of Charles S. Parker. She has worked as an elementary school teacher, librarian, voice-over artist, and professional storyteller. She’s is now a Professor of English at the University of Illinois.
Angie Estes' seventh book of poems, Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City, will be published in March 2025 by Unbound Edition Press. Her book Enchantée won the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and the Audre Lorde Prize for Lesbian Poets, and Tryst was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Her second book, Voice-Over, won the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize and was also awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Uses of Passion (GibbsSmith, 1995), was the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize. A collection of essays devoted to Estes’s work appears in the University of Michigan Press "Under Discussion" series: The Allure of Grammar: The Glamour of Angie Estes’s Poetry (2019).