Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Skinner and Associate Professor V. Joshua Adams

Faculty Spotlight:

January 29, 6 p.m., Bingham Poetry Room

Axton Master Class:
Jeffrey Skinner will lead a masterclass in poetry: January 30, 10 a.m. to noon, BAB 406

Jeffrey Skinner has published eight full collections of poetry, and a number of chapbooks. His most recent collection, Sober Ghost, appeared in 2024. His Selected Poems won the Sexton Prize (England), and will be published in 2026. In 2014 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and in 2015 was given an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for literature. His books have been winners of The National Poetry Series, The Crab Orchard Prize for Poetry, The Field Prize, and the Sexton Poetry Prize. Over the years his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Paris Review, and Bomb, among many other journals. His recent work has appeared in Volt, Fence, The North American Review, and Poetry Ireland.

V. Joshua Adams is the author of a book of poems, Past Lives (JackLeg Press, 2024), as well as the critical book Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry: Literary Experiments with Philosophical Problems (Bloomsbury, 2025). A poet, critic, translator, and scholar of comparative literature, work of his has appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Bennington Review, Chicago Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other venues.

Ryan Ridge and Iva Moore, alongside graduating MA and undergraduate CW majors.

Student Spotlight:
March 19, 7-9 p.m., Upstairs at Monnik (1036 E. Burnett Ave.). Light refreshments will be available, along with a cash bar.

Iva Moore is a poet from Waverly, Kentucky, and a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in Juked, Hobart, The Quarterless Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Women Collapse Into / Better, Brighter Artists was selected by Sawako Nakayasu as the winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize.

Ryan Ridge is the author of New Bad News (Sarabande Books) and the novella American Homes (University of Michigan Press), among other books. His collaborative collection Climate Strange, written with Mel Bosworth, is forthcoming in 2026 from Astrophil Press, and his YA novel Poison Summer is scheduled for release by Gibbs Smith in 2027. An associate professor at Weber State University, he chairs the Department of English Language and Literature. He lives in Salt Lake City with the writer Ashley Marie Farmer and their greyhound, Doug, and plays bass for the Snarlin’ Yarns, who’ve put out two albums on Dial Back Sound.

Nikki Wallschlaeger

Reading:
April 2, 6 p.m., Writing Center

Axton Master Class (Poetry):
Poetry Workshop: April 3, 10 a.m.to noon, BAB 406

Nikki Wallschlaeger is the author of the poetry collections Hold Your Own (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Waterbaby (Copper Canyon Press, 2021); Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017); and Houses (Horseless Press 2015). She has also published the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (Bloof Books, 2019). A 2021–22 visiting associate professor of poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Wallschlaeger lives in Wisconsin.