“Bee! I’m expecting you”:
Dialogues with the Non-Human
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 7:30pm ET

Like us, Emily Dickinson lived in a time of ecological change and painful civil conflict. Against this backdrop, Dickinson’s poems reach out to the world around her—the frog, the snake, the hummingbird, train, “slant of light,” even the “loaded gun,” addressing these others as companions, fellow witnesses. In this panel, poets Carolina Ebeid, Julia Guez, Anna V. Q. Ross, and Tess Taylor will explore both Dickinson’s and their own dialogues with the nonhuman. The poets will read poems by Dickinson in conversation with each other’s work to plumb that site in which “surpassing/Material Place—” we might instead “Dwell in Possibility.” We follow with writing prompts and conversation.

About the Poets
Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet born in New Jersey to Palestinian and Cuban parents. She is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, the chapbook Dauerwunder, and many digital experiments. She edits poetry at The Rumpus and Visible Binary, and from 2023-2025 she is the Bonderman Assistant Professor of poetry at Brown University.
carolinaebeid.com

Julia Guez is a writer and translator based in the city of New York. The Certain Body is her second collection of poetry, written while she was recovering from COVID in the spring of 2020. For her poetry, fiction and translations, Guez has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation, and a translation fellowship from the NEA. She teaches creative writing at NYU and Rutgers.
juliaguez.net

Anna V. Q. Ross is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Flutter, Kick, which won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry, and was named a 2023 Best New Poetry Book by the New York Public Library. The recipient of fellowships from Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fulbright Foundation, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, she teaches creative writing at Tufts University and lives in Boston, where she raises chickens.
annaVQross.com

Tess Taylor’s body of work deals with place, ecology, memory and cultural reckoning. She published five celebrated poetry collections: The Misremembered World, The Forage House, Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, Work & Days, and Rift Zone. In 2023, she published the poetry anthology: Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them, a collection of contemporary gardening poems for an era of climate crisis. She lives just outside Berkeley California.
tess-taylor.com