Join us for an evening with poets from Nine Mile Press’s Propel Disability Poetry Series!
Anne Kaier’s poetry collection How Can I Say It Was Not Enough? won the Propel Poetry Award and was published by Nine Mile Press in Spring 2025. Poems have appeared in several anthologies, including the 2012 ALA Notable Book Beauty is a Verb: An Anthology of Poetry, Poetics, and Disability. She is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and has served on a Fulbright screening committee for creative writers. She has an MA from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Lisa M. Dougherty is the author of The Dead Tree Garden, published by Nine Mile Press. She is the coauthor of The Answer Is Not Here (NightBallet Press, 2019), and the chapbook Small as Hope in the Helicopter Rain (Cervena Barva Press). Her work has appeared in the anthologies Alongside We Travel: Contemporary Poets on Autism (NYQ Books, 2019), Double Kiss: Stories, Poems, Essays on the Art of Billiards (Mammoth Books, 2017), and Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025).
This hybrid event will take place IN-PERSON at the Downtown Writers Center and ONLINE via Zoom.