Poetry @ the Public

We're kicking off the 2025-2026 season of Poetry @ the Public with two Conway poets!

Join us for an afternoon of light refreshments, community, and poetry! Marie Kressin will be making her Poetry @ the Public debut and Acie Clark will be making a grand return! Doors will open at 2:00 pm and guests are invited to enjoy light refreshments and a meet-and-greet with the authors. Readings will start at 2:30 pm.

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About the authors:

Marie Kressin is a native of Mountain Home, Arkansas, and a graduate of Hendrix College. She also earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Other than the one year she lived in Finland, where she worked as an English-speaking teaching assistant, and the time at Sewanee, she has lived her entire life in Arkansas, molded by the Ozark mountains and the Arkansas river valley. In the fall, she will return to her alma mater as a member of the English Department faculty at Hendrix.

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Acie Clark is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at UCA and serves as faculty advisor to Vortex, the award-winning student literary and arts magazine. He received his MFA from the University of Alabama, where he worked for Black Warrior Review as an online editor. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has been published in Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, Shenandoah, American Short Fiction, Passages North, The Massachusetts Review, and others. In addition to his work at UCA, he also teaches at the Interlochen Summer Arts Program in Michigan. He was also a 2024-2025 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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This event is free and open to the public. The Faulkner County Library would like to thank Michael Blanchard, editor of SLANT, the international journal of contemporary poetry published by the UCA School of Language & Literature (SLL), for fielding all of the poets for the Poetry @ the Public series. We would also like to thank all of the poets who have taken the time (and distance) to join us for these sessions. 

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For more information about SLANT, click here: https://uca.edu/sll/slant/

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