Princemere Writers Series

Chairs' Room, Ken Olsen Science Center
7 p.m. Reception
7:30-9 p.m. Reading & Book Signing

Librettist, essayist, translator, and author of twelve poetry collections, Scott Cairns was Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English at University of Missouri until leaving that position to serve as Director of the Low-Residency MFA Program at Seattle Pacific University. His work has appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic. Recent books include Lacunae (2023), Anaphora (2019), Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems (2015), Idiot Psalms (2014), Short Trip to the Edge (spiritual memoir, 2016), and Endless Life (adaptations of Christian mystics, 2014). His current projects include Descent to the Heart, verse adaptations of Saint Isaak of Syria's writings, and a pilgrimage book focusing on Orthodox Christian enclaves in Ireland and Scotland, Holy Outpost: The Thin Place Where East Meets West. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.

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Chairs' Room (Ken Olsen Science Center)
7 p.m. Reception
7:30-9 p.m. Reading

Melissa Mack is the author of the full-length poetry collection The Next Crystal Text (Nightboat Books, 2018) and the chapbook “Includes All Strangers” (Hooke Press, 2013). Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in the minnesota review, Monterey Poetry Review, Strange Hymnal, ballast, Pinhole Poetry, Berkeley Poetry Review, Hot Pink, The Town: An Anthology of Oakland Poets (Nomadic Press, 2023), and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Winslow House Project, Community of Writers, the University of California, and the Huntington Library. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. You can learn more about her at melissamackpoet.com.