A Virtual Thirsty Lab with JC Todd

The Thirsty Lab poetry reading, normally based out of Princeton, Mass., continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 JC Todd will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register.

JC Todd is author of six books of poetry, including Beyond Repair, a special selection for the Able Muse Poetry Book Award, and a bilingual (English-Lithuanian) new and selected collection, What Kept Me Awake?/Kas neleido užmigti, PDR Press, 2024. Her poems have appeared widely in anthologies and journals, including The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review. She is a co-editor of Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War, a ground- breaking anthology of poems focused on the damages of war to the non-human environment, forthcoming from Scarlet Tanager Press in the fall of this year. Her fellowships include those from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Bemis Center, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and artist residency programs. Her awards include the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the International Writing Center. She lives in Philadelphia, PA.