Poetry Reading & Author Talk: Body, Migration & Absence

Join us for an author talk with three acclaimed poets. Anna Ross, author of Flutter Kick, Shangyang Fang, author of Burying the Mountain and Lisa Olstien, author of Distinguished Office of Echoes will all read from their collections of poetry and then engage in conversation. An evening you won't want to miss!  Ross and Fang are reading along side Olstien as a celebration of her most recent collection of poetry. Distinguished Office of Echoes.

Lisa Olstein is the author of six poetry collections published by Copper Canyon Press: Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (2006), Lost Alphabet (2009), Little Stranger (2013), Late Empire (2017), Dream Apartment (2023), and Distinguished Office of Echoes (fall 2025). Her nonfiction includes Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press, 2020), a book-length lyric essay on the intersection of pain, perception, and language; and Climate (Essay Press, 2022), an exchange of epistolary essays co-written with Julie Carr. She is the lyricist for the rock band Cold Satellite, fronted by Jeffrey Foucault, and in 2025 Lost Alphabet for…