A Poetry and Prose Reading with Iain Haley Pollock, Denne Michele Norris, and Bethany Ball (In-Person)

Iain Haley Pollock

Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, Spit Back a Boy (2011), Ghost, Like a Place (2018), and the forthcoming All the Possible Bodies (2025).  Individual poems have been published in numerous publications, including American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times Magazine, and The Progressive. Pollock has received several honors for his work including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the Bim Ramke Prize for Poetry, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award.  He serves as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY.

Denne Michele Norris

Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. She is the first Black, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication. A…