Tombolo Books in partnership with St. Petersburg Poet Laureate, Gloria Muñoz is thrilled to welcome Anne Barngrover to the bookstore for the September reading in our 2023 monthly poetry series!
Barngrover will read from her stunning new poetry collection, EVERWHEN, an anxious, verdant poetry collection that is preoccupied with a chthonic era—when the secrets of long ago catch up to now, and when the past, present, and future collapse into what’s long been identified by indigenous cultures and early naturalists as Uncreation or Deep Time.
Driven by the voice of the betrayed Roman goddess Ceres, these poems consider what it is like to live out of time, to suffer unnamed illnesses of the female body, to love and grieve at the end of the world, and to even find hope and joy in “the way an apocalypse can mean/ to reveal.”
Barngrover will be joined by fellow local poet Heather Sellers who will read works from some of her latest collections and be in conversation with Barngrover after the reading.
Let us know we will see you there! Please RSVP via the link provided.
Anne Barngrover is most recently the author of Brazen Creature (University of Akron Press, 2018). Her poems and creative nonfiction have appeared in such places as Verse Daily, Arts & Letters, Guernica, Ecotone, and The Slowdown podcast. She directs the low-residency MA in Creative Writing program at Saint Leo University and lives in Tampa, Florida.
Heather Sellers, a Florida native, is the author of four poetry collections: Field Notes from the Flood Zone (BOA, 2022); The Present State of the Garden (Lynx House Press, 2021); The Boys I Borrow (New Issues Press, 2007), which was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award; and Drinking Girls and Their Dresses (Ahsahta Press, 2002). She is also the author of the memoir You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know (Riverhead, 2011), which was an O, the Oprah Magazine Book of the Month Club Choice and an Editor’s Choice at the New York Times. Her popular textbook The Practice of Creative Writing (Macmillan, 2021), is in its fourth edition. Her writing has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies, including Best American Essays, Creative Nonfiction, Good Housekeeping, The New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Reader’s Digest, The Sun, and Tin House. She has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a residency at The MacDowell Colony. She directs the undergraduate and MFA creative writing programs at the University of South Florida. For more information about Heather Sellers, visit heathersellers.com.