Elsewhere & Here: Poems on Place and Imagination

Join The University of Akron Press at the Bierce Library for Elsewhere & Here, an evening of poetry that explores the landscapes we inhabit, remember, and create. Through voices shaped by observation, memory, and world-building, Kristen Tetzmann, Caryl Pagel, and Ryan Teitman will move between the familiar and the unknown, inviting listeners to consider how place lives within us—and how we, in turn, shape the worlds around us.

Kristen Tetzmann

Kristen Tetzmann is a poet and painter from Wisconsin. She works as an editorial assistant at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and as a bookseller at Mac’s Backs. Her work has appeared in Bodega Magazine, Furrow, and elsewhere. She knows how to say “watermelon” in twenty-six languages.

Caryl Pagel

Caryl Pagel’s recent poetry publications include the chapbook Colm (Z-Axial Press) and the full-length collection Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press). She’s a co-founder and editor at Rescue Press and was the 2025 Lorine Niedecker Fellow.

Ryan Teitman

Ryan Teitman is the author of the poetry collection Litany for the City (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review, and his awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He lives in Glenside, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughter.

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