Ansel Elkins, Poetry Reading on the Star Deck

Join former fellow, Ansel Elkins on the Star Deck for some poetry.
RSVP as seating is limited.

Ansel Elkins is from Talladega County, Alabama. Her first book, Blue Yodel, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize (Yale Univ Press, 2015). Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, The New York Review of Books, Oxford American, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Southern Review, and others. She is the recipient of a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, the James Merrill House, and the 2025-2026 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. She won the 2025 Poetry Society of America Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Berea College.

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• This September, 21st September, 05:00 pm, Annual Merrill Lecture: "James Merrill and the Color Blue" Ange Mlinko in Stonington

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