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Book Launch Reading for Habitats by Katharine Whitcomb—with Special Guests!

Bookfair Stage, AWP Bookfair, Exhibit Halls D & E, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3
Friday, February 9, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

Join us for a celebration of Habitats by Katharine Whitcomb, just published in January 2024 by Poetry Northwest Editions and chosen as the third volume in the innovative Possession Sound series! This event will feature Katharine reading from her new book and readings by Possession Sound press-mate and acclaimed poet, essayist, and editor Elizabeth Bradfield, as well as Poetry Northwest senior editor and award-winning poet Xavier Cavazos, author of The Devil's Workshop, and other special guest readers.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Event_Outline_AWP_Book_Launch_Whitcomb.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Katharine Whitcomb is director of the online Professional and Creative Writing MA program, and co-founded/directed the nationally ranked online Professional and Creative Writing BA at Central Washington University. She's the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Habitats.

Elizabeth Bradfield is a writer and naturalist/guide who lives on Cape Cod, works on ships around the globe, and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. Toward Antarctica is her fourth collection.

Xavier Cavazos is the author of Barbarian at the Gate, selected as part of the PSA's New American Poets Chapbook Series. A senior poetry editor for Poetry Northwest and author of The Devil's Workshop, Editor's Choice Award from Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2023. He hopes to conjure.

#AWP24

February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center