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Join award-winning poet Caitlin Roach with local poet and memoirist Jane Wong to celebrate Roach's debut collection of poems, Surveille!

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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.

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. More can be found at caitlinroach.com.

Jane Wong is the author of the memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023). She also wrote two poetry collections: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room, Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, UCross, Loghaven, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. An interdisciplinary artist as well, she has exhibited her poetry installations and performances at the Frye Art Museum, Richmond Art Gallery, and the Asian Art Museum. She grew up in a take-out restaurant on the Jersey shore and is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University. Find her on Instagram @paradeofcats.