Writers at Work: Amie Whittemore

"Person, Place, Thing or Idea: How Nouns Conjure Locale" 

Thursday November 12, 2026, 6:00PM 
Fourth Floor Program Room

Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of four poetry collections, including Glass Harvest and Nest of Matches (both published by Autumn House Press) and the chapbook Hesitation Waltz (Midwest Writing Center, 2025). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her writing has appeared in Blackbird, Colorado Review, Terrain.org, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Whittemore teaches at Eastern Illinois University and lives in central Illinois.