February’s installment of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series features Bobby Elliott and Brian Gyamfi, which means you don’t want to miss a minute of the reading and conversation on February 10 at 8:00pm on Zoom.

Bobby Elliott is an award-winning poet and teacher. His debut collection of poems, The Same Man, was selected by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was recently published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Raised in New York City, he earned his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Adroit, BOMB, The Cortland Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and sons.

Brian Gyamfi is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Zell Fellowship, and two Hopwood Awards. A finalist for the Oxford Poetry Prize and the Poetry International Prize, his writing has appeared in POETRY, Narrative, Guernica, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. He serves as a contributing editor at Oxford Poetry. Gyamfi lives in Washington, DC.

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