Poetry reading with Rosalie Moffett, Kristine Esser Slentz, and Teresa Dzieglewicz

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Rosalie Moffett is the author of Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025), Nervous System (Ecco, 2019), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden (OSU Press, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Narrative, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Indiana and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review.

Kristine Esser Slentz is a queer writer of Maltese descent, raised in the Chicagoland area. A cult escapee and GED holder, she is the author of EXHIBIT: an amended woman, depose (FlowerSong Press, 2021, 2024) and the forthcoming collection face-to-faces (ThirtyWest Publishing House, 2026). She is a TEDx participant and regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post, and her work has also appeared in TriQuarterly, Five Points, and elsewhere. Kristine is the cofounder, organizer, and host of Adverse Abstraction, a monthly experimental artist series in New York City’s East Village. She also produces and performs in Verse & Vision, a stage production that is currently in a micro-residency at NYC’s DADA and that has just completed a second run at the IndyFringe Festival. Follow her art on Substack at Carnations & Car Crashes.

Teresa Dzieglewicz is a poet, educator, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute, a poet-in-residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and part of the founding team of Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe (Defenders of the Water School). Her first book of poetry, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children’s book, cowritten with Kimimila Locke, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize, a Best New Poets honor, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Community of Writers at Tahoe, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Brooklyn Poets. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago, on Potawatomi land.