Anhinga Press celebrates the book release of “Index for September 11th,” by Caronae Howell, winner of the 2019 Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry, release date April 10, 2021 and  Theatrix: Poetry Plays” by Terese Svoboda, released March 1, 2021. Each poet will read from their work and there will be time for questions and discussion after the reading.

CARONAE HOWELL is a physician and writer living and working in Arizona with her husband and dog. She studied history and human rights at Columbia University and received her medical doctorate from Stony Brook University School of Medicine. Her poetry and essays have been published in a variety of local and national anthologies and The New York Times. She is currently training to become a vascular surgeon. She is particularly interested in the intersections between poetry, surgery, and the human body.

TERESE SVOBODA is the author of All Aberration, Laughing Africa, Treason, Mere Mortals, and Weapons Grade, and the chapbook, Dogs Are Not Cats.  A recent Guggenheim recipient, she has won the Iowa Prize in Poetry, the Cecil Hemley Award and the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant. A fellow at Bellagio, Bogliasco, Yaddo, the James Merrill House, MacDowell, and the NEH, she also received a PEN/Columbia fellowship to translate Nuer song. She has taught at Williams, Columbia’s School of the Arts, Southampton/Stony Brook, the New School, San Francisco State, William and Mary, Fairleigh Dickinson, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Universities of Tampa, Miami, Fordham, Wichita State, and Hawaii, in St. Petersburg and Kenya for the Summer Literary Programs, and has held the McGee Professorship at Davidson College. She traveled to Kenya to talk to Somali refugees for the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. The author of six books of fiction, a memoir, and a book of translation from the Nuer, she will publish a biography of the radical poet Lola Ridge in 2016.