In this Working Writers Series presentation, award-winning poets John Hodgen and Heather Treseler discuss and read from their latest collections of poetry —Hodgen’s What We May Be and Treseler’s Auguries & Divinations—in a call-and-response format.  

John Hodgen has published six books of poetry, most recently What We May Be. His many awards include the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Grolier Prize for Poetry, Bluestem Award, Balcones Prize, Foley Prize, and prizes from Beloit Poetry Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Yankee Magazine. He is Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University and advisory editor for New Letters.

Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations, winner of the 2023 May Sarton Poetry Prize, and Parturition, which received the 2019 Munster Literature Centre Chapbook Award and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Individual poems have won the W.B. Yeats Prize and prizes from Narrative and the Missouri Review. She is professor of English at Worcester State University.