Kai Coggin, Inaugural Hot Springs Poet Laureate
Schedule
Sat Apr 04 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
401 W Mountain St, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Arkansas 72701 | Fayetteville, AR
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Join the Hot Springs Poet Laureate, Kai Coggin, as she she shares readings from her latest collection, Mother of Other Kingdoms, followed by a Q&A session. Books will be available for sale and signing following the program.Kai Coggin is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Hot Springs, AR, and a recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She is the author of five collections, most recently Mother of Other Kingdoms (Harbor Editions, 2024). Her poems have been published in POETRY, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Review, Best of the Net, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Coggin is a Certified Master Naturalist, a K-12 Teaching Artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council, a CATALYZE and INTERCHANGE Grant Fellow from the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry.
Learn more at https://www.faylib.org/event/15887523!
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