Side by side photos of the featured readers are outlined with a black line and displayed over a light blue background. Beneath the photos are the words "Open Mouth Presents: Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison." Availability of sign language interpretation is indicated by the presence of an icon showing two hands signing in the bottom left corner. Left photo: The poet Molly McCully Brown, visible from the shoulders up. Her long hair is down, and she looks directly at the camera, wearing a patterned dress. Photo courtesy of Civitella Ranieri. Right photo: The poet Susannah Nevison is visible from the shoulders up. She smiles slightly while making direct eye contact with the camera; she wears a blue racer-back dress, and her hair is short and wavy.

Open Mouth Presents: A Reading with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison

Side by side photos of the featured readers are outlined with a black line and displayed over a light blue background. Beneath the photos are the words "Open Mouth Presents: Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison." Availability of sign language interpretation is indicated by the presence of an icon showing two hands signing in the bottom left corner. Left photo: The poet Molly McCully Brown, visible from the shoulders up. Her long hair is down, and she looks directly at the camera, wearing a patterned dress. Photo courtesy of Civitella Ranieri. Right photo: The poet Susannah Nevison is visible from the shoulders up. She smiles slightly while making direct eye contact with the camera; she wears a blue racer-back dress, and her hair is short and wavy.

Join us on Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 7:00pm Central for a reading by featured poets Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by members of our poetry community.

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ACCESS NOTES: The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom and Otter.ai auto captions. An ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of poems will be made available via Google Docs. Our Access Statement will be read before we begin.

Recommended for attendees 16 years and above.

FEATURED READERS:

Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection Places I’ve Taken My Body (Persea Books, 2020), which was named a Kirkus top book of 2020, and the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the co-author of the poetry collection In the Field Between Us (Persea Books, 2020). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, The Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, The New York Times and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Nonfiction at Old Dominion University.

Susannah Nevison is the author of the poetry collections Lethal Theater(Ohio State University, 2019), and Teratology (Persea Books, 2015), which one the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. With Molly McCully Brown, she is also the coauthor of the poetry collection In The Field Between Us(Persea Books, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sweet Briar College.

SPONSORS: Support for Open Mouth Literary Center is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from our supporters on Patreon.

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