Poetry Reading with W. Nick Hill and Gary Lemons
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Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
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Poets W. Nick Hill and Gary Lemons will be reading from their new books upstairs in the Library's Carnegie Reading Room.
W. Nick Hill's Codex Ulama (The Ballgame Codex), published in 2025 by Pharus Press in Mexico. W. Nick Hill's contemporary codex brings together a variety of texts, in en face format in both Spanish and English. Lyric poems, ekphrastic verse, field notes, and more, comprise this archealogical dig into the present, centered on the ancient Mesoamerican ballgame, ulamalitzli, the world's first team sport. Learn more here.
Gary Lemons' The Book of Spells, published in 2025 by Red Hen Press, is a collection of poems that believes the world around us is shaped and reshaped by language and that changing our language is a revolutionary act of political and social magic that can replace long-standing destructive agreements with the benignity of loving clarity. Learn more here.
