A Poetry Reading & Conversation with Cecily Parks

An intimate reading and conversation with Cecily Parks, Madeline Donahue, and Cherry Pickman.

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Cecily Parks is the author of three poetry collections: The Seeds (Alice James Books, 2025), a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award; O’Nights (Alice James Books, 2015); and Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008). Her chapbook Cold Work (Poetry Society of America, 2005) was chosen by Li-Young Lee for the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She is the editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2016).

Parks teaches at Texas State University and lives in Austin, Texas.



Cherry Pickman is the author of Theory of Tides, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has appeared in 32 Poems, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Dossier, Indiana Review, Jai-Alai Magazine, and PEN, among others. A selection of her poems was included in Eight Miami Poets (2015), an anthology published by Jai-Alai Books. She has been shortlisted for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the Snowbound Chapbook Award from Tupelo Press and the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Most recently, her full-length collection Islanders was a semifinalist for the Alice James Award. In June 2017 she received a fellowship from AIRIE (Artists in Residence in the Everglades). Pickman is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program and lives and works in Miami.