Event Details

Speaker:  Claire Wahmanholm, author of Meltwater

Claire Wahmanholm will read from her latest collection, Meltwater (Milkweed Editions, 2023) and discuss what poetry can offer us during the age of climate collapse, ecocide, species loss, and extractive capitalism. The talk will end with a Q&A and selection of writing prompts.

Claire received her BA from UW-Madison, her MFA from the Johns Hopkins University, and her PhD from the University of Utah. Her debut full-length collection, Wilder (Milkweed Editions), won the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award. Her second collection, Redmouth, was published with Tinderbox Editions in 2019. Her third collection, Meltwater (Milkweed Editions 2023) is a finalist for the 2024 Minnesota Book Awards and the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She was a 2020-2021 McKnight Writing Fellow, and her poem, “Glacier,” won the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her work has most recently appeared in Sierra, The Hopkins Review, The Anarchist Review of Books, TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, and Blackbird, and has been featured by the Academy of American Poets.

Refreshments provided.

This event is co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies, English and Geology Departments.