Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Poetry Reading & Discussion
Tue, Dec 02
|Free, Virtual and Open to All
Hedge Coke’ poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives — human, plant, and animal — in a century marked by climate emergency. Her ecopoetry insists upon a reckoning and resistance with and redress of America’s continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples.
Time & Location
Dec 02, 2025, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM CST
Free, Virtual and Open to All
About the Event
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s most recent honors include 2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture. Her most recent book, Look at This Blue, was a 2022 National Book Award Finalist, a CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist, an ASLE Book of the Year Finalist, and won the 2022-2023 Emory Elliott Book Award.
In 2021, she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters and awarded the 2021 AWP George Garrett Award from AWP. Hedge Coke was selected for an inaugural Legacy Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council (2021-2022), and recently awarded the UCR Dean’s Mellon Professorship (2022-2023).
An American Book Award winning author and 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, she has written or edited 18 books and is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing for the University of California Riverside, where she directs UCR Writers Week Festival, directs the Medical Health and Humanities Designated Emphasis in the School of Medicine, where she teaches Death and Dying and Narrative Medicine, and is affiliated faculty for the newUCR department of Society, Health Equity, and Sustainability.
Hedge Coke was the founder/director of the Literary Arts Crane Retreat and Sandhill Crane festival in Alda and Kearney, Nebraska and served as the Distinguished Paul and Clarice Reynolds Chair for the University of Nebraska system and taught for UNK and UNO for nine years (cumulative).
FREE and Open to the Public