Jolene Brink, Krissy Kludt and Anna Zumbahlen

A reading and conversation from 3 debut poetry collections.

All three of these collections address pressing questions of our time. What does it mean to love a place? How do we write honestly about connection with the land in our time of present and impending ecological disaster? Across multiple landscapes— Iowa, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin — these books, together, reveal the reality of ecological grief in deeply personal ways, offering such solace as comes from intimacy with the wild world.

Krissy Kludt is the founder and executive director of Writing the Wild. I Could Walk Forever and Know So Little is her debut poetry collection, forthcoming from Green Writers Press in March of 2026. Her work appears in Taking Liberties (Cutthroat 2025), The Nature of Our Times (Paloma Press 2025), Humana Obscura, The Wildness We Tend, and Stories from the Trail (Wayfarer Books 2024). She lives in the Driftless region of southwestern Wisconsin.

Anna Zumbahlen is a poet living in Southern California. She holds a PhD in English & Literary Arts from the University of Denver and an MFA from the University of Montana. See recent