A Poetry Reading with Carlie Hoffman, Keetje Kuipers, and Lauren K. Watel (In-Person at HVWC)

Carlie Hoffman is the author of three poetry collections: One More World Like This World, When There Was Light (winner of the National Jewish Book Award), and This Alaska (winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry as well as a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award), all from Four Way Books. She contributed translations of Anneliese Hager’s poetry to the monograph, White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, 2025). Her translations of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese is forthcoming from World Poetry Books in spring 2026 and her translations of Rose Ausländer’s essential poems are also forthcoming. A 2024 Convent Arts Fellow, her honors include a 92NY “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. Hoffman’s work has been published in Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other venues. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal.

Keetje Kuipers’ fourth collection of poetry, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, New York Times Magazine, and Poetry, and have been honored by publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje has been a Stegner Fellow, NEA Literature Fellow in Creative Writing, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. She lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she is Editor of Poetry Northwest.

Lauren K. Watel’s debut collection BOOK of POTIONS (potion = poem + fiction) won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky and published by Sarabande Books. Her poetry, fiction, essays and translations have appeared widely.  Her prose poem honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was set to music by Pulitzer-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and the piece premiered at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 2021. A native of Dallas, TX, she currently lives in Decatur, GA, home of the intrepid Decatur High School Marching Band.