
Adrian Elizabeth Koesters Poetry Reading & Discussion
Tue, Feb 03
|Virtual on Zoom
Poet Adrian Elizabeth’s work has been called “lyrical confessions of grief and joy.” Join us for an evening where her poems of faith, doubt, and desire reveal the music and mystery of the human spirit.


Time & Location
Feb 03, 2026, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM CST
Virtual on Zoom
About the Event
Adrian Elizabeth Koesters is a poet, novelist and nonfiction writer. She holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she was assistant editor in Poetry for Prairie Schooner magazine and graduate assistant editor for Ted Kooser and Patricia Emile on the syndicated newspaper column, "American Life in Poetry.” She has taught creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Creighton University.
Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, “American Life in Poetry,” Anti-Heroin Chic, South Dakota Poetry Review, Blast Furnace, Berkeley Poetry Review, Split Rock Review, The Inflectionist Review, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Henniker Review, The Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerika, International Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, A River and Sound Review, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. Her poetry collections include Many Parishes (2013) and Three Days with the Long Moon (2017), both from BrickHouse Books.
FREE and Open to the…