In her eighth book of poetry, Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023), Maxwell employs the lipogram, an ancient form in which certain letters are excluded from the available alphabet. This work, which centers endangered species, serves to question the common practice of elegizing as it examines the role that anthropocentrism plays in ongoing extinction.

An associate professor of English at the University of Louisville, Maxwell holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona.

Thomas N. Taylor Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology & Assistant Curator at the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum will offer additional considerations on extinction that stem from her research, which relies on traces and artifacts left behind by now extinct plant species

Supported by the Department of English, the Environmental Studies Program, The Commons, and the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum