Four award-winning emerging poets will read from their new and recent books, all of which are infused with voice and place: Rebecca Morgan Frank’s The Spokes of Venus (Carnegie Mellon) channels the voices of art makers; Megan Grumbling’s Booker’s Point (University of North Texas) is a portrait-in-verse of an old Maine woodsman; Rachel Richardson juxtaposes the quests of Ahab and Melville against the daily voices of wives and mothers in The Hundred-Year Wave (Carnegie Mellon); and David Roderick conjures myriad voices in the patchwork identity search of The Americans (PITT). Through their work and commentary, they will demonstrate the possibilities of the persona poem and poetry of place, drawing on the physical, literary, and artistic landscapes of New England and beyond.