Julia Kolchinsky & Austin Segrest Poetry Reading

An electrifying poetry reading in the heart of downtown Fayetteville. Connect with authors Julia Kolchinsky and Austin Segrest and Bee Balm community members as we hear from Julia and Austin’s new books, PARALLAX and Groom. Meet the poets, buy a book, and get it signed. We’ll be moved by these brilliant poets and get low-key drinks downtown after.

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Julia Kolchinsky

Julia Kolchinsky is the author of four poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother, Don't Touch the Bones, 40 WEEKS, and PARALLAX (The University of Arkansas Press, 2025) finalist of the Miller Williams Prize. Her next book, When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), is a collaborative collection with Luisa Muradyan. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, Shenandoah, and won Michigan Quarterly Review's Prize in nonfiction. Julia is working on a collection of linked lyric essays about parenting her neurodiverse child and the end of her marriage under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Julia's birthplace. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University.

Austin Segrest

Originally from Alabama, Austin Segrest holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Missouri (2014) and an MFA from Georgia State University (2009).

Austin has received fellowships from Ucross Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the NEH. A former poetry editor of The Missouri Review, Austin currently teaches at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.

Austin's first book, Door to Remain, won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. His poems can be found in POETRY, VQR, The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, Ecotone, The Common, New England Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. His essays on poetry can be found in APR, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Southern Humanities Review, On the Seawall, and Pleiades.

His second collection, Groom, was released April 2025 with Unbound Edition Press.

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