Join us Tuesday, December 5 at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading and conversation with Jehanne Dubrow author of Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity, and Brian Turner, author of The Wild Delight of Wild Things. They will be reading from their lyrical essays and poems and exploring the relationship between art, trauma, loss, war, and genocide. What happens when art intersects with horror and sorrow? Please join us for what is certain to be an eye-opening conversation.

Photo credit: Cedric Terrell

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections, including most recently Wild Kingdom (Louisiana State University Press, 2021), and two books of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press, 2019) and Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press, 2022). Her third book of nonfiction, Exhibitions: Essays On Art & Atrocity, was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2023. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, New England Review, Colorado Review, and The Southern Review. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.

Brian Turner is the author of five collections of poetry (from Here, Bullet to The Wild Delight of Wild Things) and a memoir (My Life as a Foreign Country) and is the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres anthologies. A musician, he has also written and recorded several albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and The Retro Legion's American Undertow. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.

This month’s InConversation event will feature a raffle for a 4-issue subscription to Journal of the Month! A name will be drawn from the list of event attendees.

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