Join us on Tuesday, July 15 at 7:30pm Eastern for What The Universe Is: Molly Akin and David Cazden 

Think of the Zoom room as a cool oasis in the middle of summer’s swelter and the poems by Molly and David as icy drinks to help you get through another July night.

Molly Akin is a writer and nonprofit library director on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her first collection, Hospice, is now available for pre-order with a September 26, 2025, release date. 

Molly was a featured reader along with Jane Huffman and Diane Seuss during the 2024 Tell it Slant poetry festival hosted by the Emily Dickinson Museum. She has read in other venues, including the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Wilder Words, Fine Arts Work Center, and New England Poetry Club.  Molly is a 2023 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and her writing has been supported by the Sundress Academy for the Arts and Fine Arts Work Center. 

A semi-finalist for the Black Lawrence Press St. Lawrence Book Prize, Molly’s work has been published or is forthcoming from Brevity, Identity Theory, Inflectionist Review, Paraselene, and Tulip Tree.  

David Cazden has published three poetry collections, most recently New Stars And Constellations (Bainbridge Island Press, 2024). David's poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Passages North, The McNeese Review, Nimrod International (finalist, Pablo Neruda Award), Rattle, The Connecticut Review, Midwest Quarterly, Verse Daily, Crab Creek Review, Fugue Journal, The Louisville Review and elsewhere.

David was the poetry editor for the magazine Miller's Pond for five years and is the recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship for poetry from the Kentucky Arts Council.   

Registration is quick and easy at bit.ly/WTUIJul2025