Mihaela Moscaliuc's book Immigrant Model asks: "What is it like to be of this world and this world and this world, while also of the elsewhere skirting these worlds?" Moscaliuc also authored Father Dirt and is an assistant professor of English at Monmouth University. Michael Waters's new collection delves into the sensual and the spiritual with characteristic intensity. The author or coeditor of 10 books of poetry, Waters is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and professor of English at Monmouth University. This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA.