Welcome to a poetry reading at the Monroe Hill House! John Casteen, the Director of Studies at Brown College is our host for the presentation by poets featured in the Southern Poetry Anthology IX: Virginia.

Robert Wood Lynn is a writer from Virginia. His debut poetry collection Mothman Apologia was the winner of the 2021 Yale Younger Poets Prize and 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His work has been featured in American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Magazine, The Yale Review and other publications. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellow, he teaches creative writing at Juilliard.   Leah Naomi Green is the author of The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press, 2020), selected by Li-Young Lee for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets.  She teaches environmental studies and English at Washington and Lee University specializing in Environmental Literature and Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Paris Review, Tin House, Poem-a-Day, VQR, The Southern Review, Orion, Shenandoah, Ecotone, and Pleiades among other publications.   Amy Woolard is Chief Program Officer for the ACLU of Virginia, where she works on civil rights & civil liberties advocacy in Virginia. Her debut poetry collection, NECK OF THE WOODS, received the 2018 Alice James Award from Alice James Books. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Fence, & elsewhere, while her essays and reporting have been featured in publications such as Slate, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, and The Rumpus, as well as Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded her the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction in 2016.