Join Terrain.org assistant poetry editor Suzanne Frischkorn for Terrain.org‘s Earth Day and Poetry Month reading, featuring acclaimed poets Mark Irwin, Kyce Bello, and Chaun Ballard. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.

Registration for this online event is required. Zoom hosting generously provided by the University of Arizona.

Monday, April 28, 2025
5 p.m. PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET

Mark Irwin is the author of 13 collections of poetry, which include Once When Green (2025), Joyful Orphan (2023), Shimmer (2020), American Urn: Selected Poems (1987-2014), and others. He has also translated Philippe Denis’ Notebook of Shadows, Nichita Stănescu’s Ask the Circle to Forgive You: Selected Poems, and Zanzibar: Selected Poems and Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (forthcoming with Alain Borer). His collection of essays, Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry, was published in 2017. His poetry and essays have appeared in many literary magazines including The American Poetry Review, Agni Review, The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Pleiades, Poetry, The Nation, New England Review, New American Writing, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Southern Review, and Tin House. Recognition for his work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, four Pushcart Prizes, two Colorado Book Awards, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, The Juniper Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright, Lilly, and Wurlitzer Foundations. A professor in the PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program at the University of Southern California, he lives in Los Angeles and the mountains outside Salida, Colorado. His poetry has been translated into several languages.

Kyce Bello’s most recent book of poetry is Far Country (University of Nevada Press, 2025). Her debut collection, Refugia, (University of Nevada Press, 2019) was the inaugural winner of the Test Site Poetry Prize and received a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. She edited the award-winning anthology, The Return of the River, a work of literary activism. Bello holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works as a nurse and writes the blog Old Recipe for a New World.

Chaun Ballard is a member of the poetry faculty in the Alaska Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program, a doctoral student of poetry, an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, an assistant poetry editor for Prairie Schooner, an assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org, and a graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His debut book Second Nature is winner of the 23rd annual Poulin Prize. His chapbook, Flight, was the winner of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and is published by Tupelo Press. His poems have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, The New York Times, The Slowdown, and other literary magazines.