Lesley Wheeler's sixth poetry collection is Mycocosmic, published by Tupelo Press in2025. Her previous poetry collections include The State She's In, Radioland, The Receptionist and Other Tales, Heterotopia, and Heathen. She has also published the nonfiction book Poetry's Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Recent poems and essays appear in Poetry, Best American Poetry 2025, Poetry Daily, and Poets & Writers. Wheeler's writing has been supported by Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers Workshop, Fulbright (New Zealand), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, Wheeler is the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at W&L University. The reading will be followed by a Q&A and a book signing. This event is free and open to the public.