Book Banter Featuring Jennifer Polson Peterson
September 10 @ 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Book Banter is excited to welcome Jennifer Polson Peterson author of the poetry collection, Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe. Join us for a thoughtful and engaging discussion about the book, its exploration of our strange and shifting world, and the ideas, questions, and experiences that inspired Peterson’s work.
Watch the live stream on YouTube Thursday, August 20th at 6pm central.
Watch the live stream on YouTube Thursday, August 20th at 6pm central.
Tune in Watch the live stream on YouTube Thursday, August 20th at 6pm central.
Watch the live stream on YouTube, Thursday , September 10 at 6pm central.
Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe is a book about apocalypses large and small. The poems in this meditative debut collection explore economic and climatological trends toward dissolution, and how these forces seep into the domestic sphere. Whether exploring the constellations of family dynamics or observing natural and human disasters, Jennifer Polson Peterson reflects on ” the newly unmade world” that nonetheless urges us to continue rebuilding.
Jennifer Polson Peterson
Jennifer Polson Peterson is the author of Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe (Belle Point Press, 2026) and Must Resemble Leisure (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022). She serves as the 2024-28 Poet Laureate of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 2025 she was named a Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Image, The Southern Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. Her poems have been adapted for performance by choir and orchestra, featured on Poetry Daily, and nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches writing at the University of Southern Mississippi.