Folio presents: A World Undone: Kelli Russell Agodon, Julia Levine, Heidi Seaborn and Michele Bombardier

Folio is delighted to welcome four extraordinary poets, each celebrating a new collection, for an evening of poetic transcendence.

Kelli Russell Agodon’s Accidental Devotions, Julia Levine’s Lullaby for the Sixth Extinction, Heidi Seaborn’s tic, tic, tic, and Michele Bombardier’s Don’t Ask Me How I Know, all trace the tender and troubled terrain of love and loss, asking how we bear witness to a world in the midst of coming undone.

Kelli Russell Agodon (she/her) is a bi/queer poet and editor whose newest poetry book, Accidental Devotions, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2026.Her last book, Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press), was named a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays & Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli is currently part of a project between local land trusts and artists to help raise awareness for the preservation of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity called Writing the Land. She also co-hosts the poetry series”Poems You Need” with Melissa Studdard.

Julia B. Levine was born in New York City and grew up in Flint, Michigan. She received an MFA from Pacific University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Levine is the author of Ordinary Psalms (LSU Press, 2021); Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight (LSU Press, 2014), winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry; Ditch-tender (University of Tampa Press, 2007); Ask (University of Tampa, 2003), winner of the Tampa Review Prize; and Practicing for Heaven (Anhinga Press, 1991), winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, as well as the recipient of a bronze medal from Foreword Magazine. The recipient of numerous other honors, including the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, the Bellevue Literary Review Poetry Prize, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize, Levine lives in Davis, California, where she serves as the city’s current poet laureate. In 2022, Levine received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.

Heidi Seaborn is a Seattle-based poet, essayist and editor. As a teen, Heidi wrote and published poetry then lost the plot for 40 years, returning to writing in 2016. She hasn’t looked up since. Her third collection of poetry, tic tic tic, was published September 16, 2025 by Cornerstone Press. Her second poetry collection, the award-winning An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe came out in 2021 and was re-released in 2022 as Marilyn: Essays and Poems from PANK. Heidi’s debut book of poems, Give a Girl Chaos, from C&R Press was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Additionally, she’s authored three chapbooks, the prize-winning Bite Marks, Once a Diva and Finding My Way Home. She’s won or been recognized for numerous awards including winning the esteemed the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize in Poetry from The Missouri Review. Her poems, essays and literary criticism have appeared in AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Brevity, Copper Nickel, Crab Creek Review, Electric Lit, The Financial Times of London, Lit Hub, Image, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, Terrain.org, The Slowdown and elsewhere. She is currently writing a hybrid work of autofiction, Upstart, based on her twenties spent during the halcyon early days of Silicon Valley. Heidi serves as the Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds degrees from Stanford and NYU.

Michele Bombardier’s decades of clinical work are reflected in her writing: themes in her poems often center on resiliency, connection, empathy, and awareness. Before returning to graduate school for her MFA in Poetry, Michele worked as a neurological specialist speech-language pathologist in hospitals and in private practice. She is certified in narrative medicine, leading workshops and retreats for clinicians and those affected by illness or disability. Author of two poetry collections, Michele’s poetry and reviews can be found in hundreds of literary journals such as JAMA, New Ohio Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Parabola, Bellevue Literary Review, and others. She holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific University and has received fellowships from Centrum, Hedgebrook, Mineral School, Edith Wharton Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre and a grant from Humanities Washington. Michele is the founder of Fishplate Poetry, which offers workshops, editing and retreats while raising funds for humanitarian relief.