Join us for a poetry launch by Whitney Rio-Ross. She is releasing her first collection called “Thunder Makes Us”!

Whitney Rio-Ross is the author of thunder makes us (Belle Point Press) and poetry editor for Fare Forward. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best Spiritual Literature nominee. Her poetry has appeared in Image, ONLY POEMS DAILY, SWING, minnesota review, Whale Road Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2021 Sacred Poetry Prize and lives with her husband and dogs in Nashville, TN.

She will be joined by friend and author Patricia L. Hamilton.

Patricia L. Hamilton won the 2015 and 2017 Rash Award in Poetry and received an Honorable Mention in 2019. She has also received three Pushcart Prize nominations along with other recognitions. Her work has appeared in numerous poetry journals in the U.S. and abroad. She is the author of The Distance to Nightfall (Main Street Rag) and Even Now (Kelsay Books). She resides in Jackson, TN, with her husband.