Award winning poet Alicia Mountain joins us at [words] on Friday, June 15th at 7:30pm with her book "High Ground Coward".

Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, Alicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow.