Past, Present and Future: An Author Panel

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is thrilled to welcome authors Jeanne Heuving, Julie Carr, and Donna Stonecipher for an author panel discussion. 

T. S. Eliot famously wrote, "Time present and time past. Are both perhaps present in time future. . . . If all time is eternally present / All time is unredeemable." The authors will take on the questions raised by T.S. Eliot, reflecting on which considerations of time are elemental to their work.

Enjoy readings of passages from their books, Indigo Angel, Mud, Blood and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics and Spiritualism in the American West, and The Ruins of Nostalgia, and join us for a wine reception to conclude the evening.

Julie Carr is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose. Julie Carr’s most recent books are Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West; Real Life: An Installation; Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein; and the essay collection, Someone Shot My Book. Underscore, a book of poems, will be out from Omnidawn in 2024. Earlier books include 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta 2010), RAG (Omnidawn, 2014), and Think Tank (Solid Objects 2015). With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press 2015). Her co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory was published by Commune Editions in 2018. She lives in Denver where she co-founded and helps to run Counterpath and teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Jeanne Heuving is a writer and scholar. She was the 2021-2022 Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry, Cambridge University (UK). She has recently published her prose and poetry volumes, Mood Indigo (selva oscura press, 2019) Brilliant Corners (Chax, 2022), and Indigo Angel  (Black Square Editions, 2023) and is the editor of Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out: Essays on His Work (U of Iowa Press, 2021), and the co-editor, along with Tyrone Williams, of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry (Recencies Series, University of New Mexico Press, 2019). Her earlier cross-genre book Incapacity (Chiasmus, 2004) won a Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic. She is a recipient of National Endowment of the Humanities and Fulbright Fellowships, among others, and is a professor at the University of Washington (UW) Bothell and on the graduate faculty of UW Seattle. She lives in Seattle.

Donna Stonecipher is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Ruins of Nostalgia (2023), which was named a best book of 2023 by NPR, and Transaction Histories (2018), which was listed by The New York Times as one of the 10 best poetry books of 2018. She has also published one book of criticism, Prose Poetry and the City (2018). Her poems have been published in many journals, including The Paris Review, and have been translated into seven languages. She translates from German, and her translation of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker’s trilogy études, cahier, and fleurs, for which she received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, is being published by Seagull Books. She lives in Berlin.