John Amen is the author of five collections of poetry, including Illusion of an Overwhelm, finalist for the 2018 Brockman-Campbell Award. He was the recipient of the 2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize. His work has appeared recently in Rattle, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, and American Literary Review. He founded and continues to edit the Pedestal Magazine.…

For Women’s History Month, join Karin L. Zipf, a Professor of History at East Carolina University, who will be discussing her book, Bad Girls at Samarcand: Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory (2016). The book is a detailed study of the State Home and Industrial School in Eagle Springs, referred to as Samarcand…