River Readings: Anders Carlson-Wee

The 2024 River Readings will welcome Anders Carlson-Wee on April 23.

The reading will begin at 5 p.m. in Wallenberg Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The River Readings series at Augustana brings literary artists to campus each year from around the country. These writers of poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction meet with students in class or other venues to discuss their work and careers.

About Anders Carlson-Wee

Anders Carlson-Wee, renowned poet and author, will join us as the Spring 2024 River Reader at Augustana College.

Carlson-Wee received his MFA from Vanderbilt University and has published three compelling poetry collections, including the debut award-winning chapbook Dynamite (Bull City Press), and The Low Passions (2019) and Disease of Kings (2023) with W.W. Norton. His work delves into complexities of American excess, as well as the power of human connection. In response to his newest collection, Disease of Kings, fellow author Luis Alberto Urrea writes that Carlson-Wee "travels in and out of utter-noir midnight to lightening-dawn hues with such aplomb, his poems seem effortless."