Austin Segrest is a Wisconsin based author and teaches at Lawrence University. His poetry has appeared in VQR, The Common, The Yale Review, and countless other journals. He has received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, the NEH and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Along with this, his first book, Door to Remain, won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. However this week he is going to be talking about his newest collection Groom.

His work reveals the complex layers of relationships and personal history that is formative to the author's creative process. In this week's episode we’re going to be exploring these raw emotions and moral complexities that forge his work, so don’t miss this opportunity to get this first hand account of the essence of his contemporary work.

Join us as our hosts explore his new book Groom, and examine how formative relationships can shape and alter who we are, and utilize those experiences to create art that reveals that “someone has heard.”

This is Austin Segrest Unbound.

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