Waywiser Books
Fall Showcase
meet our press - hear from our poets - celebrate 25 years of Waywiser Press
featuring a sneak peek from Bitters by Christopher Childers, publishing February 2027
Wednesday
October 28, 2026
7:00pm EDT / 4:00pm PDT
Virtual through Zoom - Registration Required
What to Expect
Readings from Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Winners
Hannah Louise Poston (Julia Hungry)
Julia Thacker (To Wildness)
Anna Lena Phillips Bell (Might Could)
Christopher Childers (Bitters - coming Spring 2027!)
A Conversation with Phil Hoy
Waywiser Board Member, Eric McHenry, will be asking our Founding Editor Emeritus, Phil Hoy, about the Between the Lines series, which published expansive dialogues with John Ashbery, Thom Gunn, Donald Hall, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, and many others.
A Sneak Peek at Bitters
Bitters will be out February 2027! In Bitters, Christopher Childers, a translator of classics, hosts a poetic cocktail party for the not-quite defeated. With classical sensibility, these poems reckon with love, loss, and the strangeness of having a self.
An auction will run in tandem with this event.
More details coming soon!
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