Join us for a reading with Caitlin Roach in celebration of her new book, Surveille, along with Lisa Wells!
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Surveille’s queer speaker is on the cusp of motherhood, vacillating between attentiveness and paranoia. Exploring drone strikes, scorpion eradication, bird behavior, mating deer, ICE detainees, and family relationships, Caitlin Roach’s poems stare into and through the truth with a blazing intensity. This is a book about control (self-inflicted and external), about watching and being watched (by oneself, by others, by the state), and about the desperate search for meaning in a world that feels increasingly violent and filled with despair.
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Caitlin Roach is a poet originally from San Diego, California. Her poems appear in Best New Poets (2023, 2021, and 2017), Narrative Magazine, Tin House, The Iowa Review, jubilat, Poetry Daily, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was the Provost Fellow and a Postgraduate Fellow. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, the essayist José Orduña, and their two sons.
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Lisa Wells is the author of Believers, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Her debut collection of poetry, The Fix, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. A new book, The Fire Passage, was selected by Diane Seuss for the Levis Prize in Poetry and will be published by Four Way Books in 2025.
Her essays have been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, N+1, The New York Times, The Best American Science & Nature Writing, and The Best American Food and Travel Writing. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with the writer Joshua Marie Wilkinson and helps edit the Kuhl House Poets Series.