WordHouse Reading Series
Wednesday May 20, 6PM
Trace Peterson and Kate Rushin
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Trace Peterson is a poet who learned an enormous amount studying poetry writing with Kate Rushin at Wesleyan University in the late 90s. Peterson's newest book of poems is The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep, which won the 2025 Saturnalia Books Alma Book Award and is a Finalist for the 2026 Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Award in Women's Studies. She is also author of the 2007 poetry book Since I Moved In, which was reissued in a second edition from Chax Press in 2019, and co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics published by Nightboat Books which is currently in its fourth printing. A former N.E.H. Post-Doctoral Fellow at Emory, she has also taught at Yale, Naropa, Hunter College, and currently teaches in the WGSS Program at UConn.
Kate Rushin is the author of The Black Back-Ups, a New York Public Library, Book for the Teen Age as well as a Finalist for a Lambda Award. She has received fellowships from Brown University, The Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and The Cave Canem Foundation. Her work has appeared in POETRY Magazine, Poem-a-Day and the anthology, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, edited by Kevin Young. Kate performs her poetry with jazz bassist, Nat Reeves. She is currently Professor of English and Poet in Residence at Connecticut College in New London, CT.
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