Southern poets Hannah Bonner (Another Woman, 2024) and Julia Anna Morrison (Long Exposure, 2023) read from their recent collections, exploring topics that include female sexuality, abjection within the decline of a romantic relationship, familial grief, addiction, and mental illness.

Hannah Bonner is a 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow, and her criticism has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Cleveland Review of Books, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Reverse Shot, The Rumpus, Senses of Cinema, and The Sewanee Review. She has an MA in Film Studies as well as an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She is the author of Another Woman.

Julia Anna Morrison is a writer and filmmaker from Atlanta, GA, with an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net, and has recently appeared in Best American Poetry, The Adroit Journal, and Narrative. She is co-founder of Two Peach and teaches at the University of Iowa. Long Exposure is her first book of poems.