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Authors & Books- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will close on April 7, 2026 @ 7:00pm.
Program Description
Event Details
Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation as we welcome Lisa Low to celebrate the release of her debut full-length collection, Replica. Low will be joined in conversation by acclaimed poet and editor Rebecca Morgan Frank.
Books will be available for sale, courtesy of our neighborhood bookstore, The Book Loft.
About Lisa Low
Lisa Low is the author of Crown for the Girl Inside (2023), winner of the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest from YesYes Books. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her essay “How to Apologize” won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize. She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and has an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, where she served as associate editor at The Cincinnati Review. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Replica, is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in 2026. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.
About Rebecca Morgan Frank
Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four books of poetry: Oh You Robot Saints!, one of the New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2021; Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country; The Spokes of Venus; and Little Murders Everywhere, shortlisted for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems have appeared in such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Orion, Ecotone, Harvard Review, New England Review, and The Slowdown Show, and her stories in such places as Joyland, Catapult, Swing, and Prairie Schooner.