Karen Holmberg and Carolyn Supinka at Up Up Books

Poetry reading and conversation with Karen Holmberg and Carolyn Supinka Join us for a reading and conversation with Karen Holmberg and Carolyn Supinka Karen Holmberg won the 2025 Cider Press Review Editors’ with Reckless Shelter. Reckless Shelter was published iAugust, 2026. Holmberg’s two poetry volumes are The Perseids (winner of the Vassar Miller Prize/University of North Texas Press) and Axis Mundi (winner of the John Ciardi Prize/BkMk Press). In addition to poetry, she publishes lyric essays and art criticism, appearing in At Length, Tupelo Quarterly, and the Notting Hill Editions Prize anthology. Recent poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, and were featured in the spring issue of High Country News. Her first young adult novel, The Collagist, won the 2021 Acheven Prize and was published by Regal Press/Fitzroy Editions in the spring of 2024. She teaches British Literature, poetry writing, and letterpress printing at Oregon State University, where she is on the MFA in Creative Writing faculty. Carolyn Supinka (she/her) is a visual artist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA from Oregon State University and BA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her poetry comics have appeared in Gigantic Sequins, Ecotone, HAD and Redivider. Her poetry has appeared in DIAGRAM, The Boiler, Sixth Finch, and Passages North. She creates zines with and is a co-editor of Conjunction Press. Her first full-length book of poetry and poetry comics, Metamorphic Door, is out now from Buckman Publishing.