An Evening of Poetry with Conyer Clayton and Acie Clark

About the Authors:

Conyer Clayton is a queer writer from Louisville, Kentucky living between Canada and the U.S. South. They are the author of But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award), We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Winner of the Ottawa Book Award), and many chapbooks. Conyer’s fiction has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship and a McCormack Writing Centre Scholarship. the lake-shaped excuse is their third book.

Acie Clark is a multi-disciplinary wrtier from Florida and Georgia. His work has been supported by the Fine Arts Work Center and the Collegeville Institute, selected for Best New Poets 2025, and anthologized in Divinity in the Margins, I Witness, and The Florida Anthology. His manuscript, Small Talk, was the winner of Hub City’s 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, selected by award-winning poet Derrick Austin. The collection works in both lyric and narrative traditions of trans poetics to explore addiction, religion, southern identity, and the natural world. It will be published in Fall 2026.