Join us for a captivating evening with Jennifer Polson Peterson & Ellie Black discussing, and signing their latest books. Wednesday, August 5th / 7 PM *Ellie Black is a poet, memoirist, editor, critic, screenwriter, performer, and educator originally from Arkansas. She received a PhD in English, Creative Writing Concentration (emphasis in nonfiction, memoir, and autotheory) and MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in English–Creative Writing at Hendrix College. Her debut poetry collection, REVELATOR, is the winner of the 2026 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. *Jennifer Polson Peterson is the author of Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe (Belle Point Press, 2026) and Must Resemble Leisure (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022). She serves as the 2024-28 Poet Laureate of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 2025 she was named a Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Image, The Southern Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. Her poems have been adapted for performance by choir and orchestra, featured on Poetry Daily, and nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches writing at the University of S