Georgia Poetry Circuit Events 2025-2026

The Department of English at Georgia Southern University is pleased to sponsor the following Georgia Poetry Circuit events in 2025 and 2026:

Tim Seibles was born in Philadelphia in 1955. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. He has received a grant from the NEA & a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His eight books of poetry include Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His poems have appeared in several anthologies including: Poetry Goes to The Movies, Seriously Funny, Uncommon Core, This Is The Honey & Villanelles. Seibles’ works have also been featured in Best American Poetry 2010, 2013 & 2023. His most recent collection, Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems was released by Etruscan Press in 2021. A new book, With No Hat, will be published in 2026.

Dr. Diamond Forde‘s debut collection, Mother Body, was chosen by Patricia Smith as the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. Her second book, The Book of Alice, will be released in January 2026. She has received numerous awards & prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize & CLA’s Margaret Walker Memorial Prize. She is a Callaloo, Tin House, & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, whose work has appeared in Boston Review, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter & elsewhere. She serves as the interviews editor for Honey Literary. Diamond earned her Bachelors in English from the University of West Georgia, an MFA from The University of Alabama & her PhD in African American Poetics & Fat Studies at Florida State University. She is an assistant professor at UNC Asheville.

Last updated: 8/12/2025