We are very excited to welcome three (count ‘em!) wonderful poets to Skylark on Friday, May 29, for an evening of spellbinding performances. Jesse Millner, Cameron Carter, and Emma DePanise will be taking to the Skylark stage and sharing their work with us - we cannot wait. Come and join us for a magical evening of dazzling poetry! As always, the event starts at 6:30 p.m. and is completely free to attend.
Jesse Millner’s poems have appeared in River Styx, Pearl, The Prose Poem Project, Gravel, The Florida Review, Wraparound South and other literary magazines. His poem, “In Praise of Small Gods,” was selected for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2013, and his flash piece, “Last Night I Dreamed” was featured in Best Small Fictions 2020. He has published six poetry chapbooks and three full-length collections, The Neighborhoods of My Past Sorrow (winner of bronze medal in 2010 Florida Book Awards), Dispatches from the Department of Supernatural Explanation (Kitsune Books, 2012) and Memory’s Blue Sedan (Hysterical Books, 2020). His latest chapbook, Gina, Editor’s Choice winner of the 2025 Anhinga Press Rick Campbell chapbook contest, was released by Anhinga Press in February 2026.
Cameron Carter is a fiction writer and educator from Atlanta and the fiction editor for Another Chicago Magazine. He earned his MA from Ball State University, his MFA from Georgia State University, and is a PhD student at the University of Missouri. His work has appeared in StorySouth, Cutleaf Magazine, and other places.
Emma DePanise is a poet and teacher from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Working at the intersections of ecology and sound, her poems have appeared in venues such as Best New Poets 2024, Verse Daily, Poetry Northwest, The Los Angeles Review, and The National Poetry Review. She has received awards from AWP, Blue Earth Review, and Nimrod International Journal, among others. A finalist in Button Poetry’s 2025 chapbook contest and former editor for Sycamore Review and The Shore, she holds an MFA from Purdue University and is a current PhD candidate in English at the University of Missouri.
