Hollie Adams will read from her current manuscript in-progress, a collection of poems about how we conceptualize space/place in the Anthropocene. These poems--many of which are about the place of Maine specifically--engage with the effects of climate change and the symptoms of a world on fire. In a geological age in which human activity exerts the greatest influence on the land and our natural environment, how has the space of Maine changed? How has climate change affected our relationship--both physically and mentally--to the place we call home? What does the future look like for the land? A Q&A session will follow the reading.

Hollie Adams (she/her), of Bangor, ME, is the author of the novel Things You've Inherited from Your Mother (NeWest Press, 2015) and the hybrid prose-poetry chapbook Deliver Me from Swedish Furniture (Zed Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the BpNichol Chapbook Award. She is the current fiction editor of The Windsor Review, and her prose and poetry have appeared across Canada in publications including The Malahat Review, The Temz Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Room, Carousel, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, and Grain. Her writing, often surrealist, dystopian, and fabulist in content, engages regularly with issues of climate change and environment, home and place, and gender and relationships. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, she now lives and works on the homeland of the Penobscot Nation, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine.