Thursday, March 21, 2024 features poets Amy Haddad and Carolina Hotchandani

Amy Haddad  is the 2019 recipient of the Annals of Internal Medicine poetry prize for “Families Like This” for the best poem published in the journal. She won third-place for the 2019 Kalanithi Writing Awards from Stanford University for her poem “Dark Rides.” Her chapbook, “The Geography of Kitchens,” was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her first poetry collection, “An Otherwise Healthy Woman,” was published by Backwaters Press, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press in early 2022. “An Otherwise Healthy Woman” was awarded twice in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards: first place in the Creative Works Category and second place in the Professional Issues Category.

Amy will be teaching 4-week long workshop in-house at Larksong in April. To register for "Stories Your Collection Can Tell" - Go to "Classes" -> "On-site classes" -> "Stories Your Collection Can Tell: A Larksong Bootcamp for Poets"

Carolina Hotchandani is the author of The Book Eaters, 2023 Perugia Press Prize Winner, which was one of the ten debut poetry books featured in the 2024 Poets & Writers Magazine’s Debut Poets issue. Hotchandani holds degrees from Brown, Texas State, and Northwestern universities and has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English in Omaha, Nebraska, where she lives with her husband and daughter. 

Thursday, April 18, 2024 features writers from Larksong's Speculative Fiction Writers Group. 

Past Third Thursday Readers:

Thursday, February 15, 2024 Featured poet Karla Hernandez Torrijos and illustrator Katie Nieland

Thursday, February 1, 2024 Featured poets Maria Nazos and Monica Joy Fara

Thursday, November 30, 2023 Featured author Carla Ketner and illustrator Paula Wallace

Thursday, November 16, 2023 Featured Nebraska Warrior Writers Open Mic Night

Thursday, October 19, 2023 Featured memorist Michael James and poet Brad Anderson

September 21, 2023: Featured Tricia Currans-Sheehan and Jeanne Emmons 

August 17, 2023: Featured Robert Ross and J. Stevens Berry 

July 20, 2023: Featured Rita Paskowitz

June15, 2023: Featured Tyler Jacobs and John Moesner

May 18, 2023: Featured Jonis Agee

April 20, 2023: Featured Barbara Schmitz and Bonnie Johnson Bartee. 

March 16, 2023: Featured Marcia Calhoun Forecki, Rex Walton, and Shoshana Sumrall.

February 23,2023: Featured Adrian Loehring and Vince Learned

January 19, 2023: Featured Editors and Contributors of The Good Life Review, including Shyla Shehan, Cat Dixon, Tacheny Perry, Michelle Pierce Battle, Tana Buoy, &  Annie Barker


December 15, 2022: Featured poets Liz Kay, Sarah McKinstry Brown, and singer Pam Herbert Barger


November 17, 2022: Featured novelist Brent Spencer and Karen Gettert Shoemaker


October 20, 2022: Featured poets Matt Mason and Stacey Waite