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Stephanie Young | Poet, Scholar, Teacher

Poetics & Plant Medicine 2026

Writing + Books + Conversation

Stephanie Young | Poet, Scholar, Teacher

Poetics & Plant Medicine 2026

Writing + Books + Conversation

Poetics & Plant Medicine 2026

Writing + Books + Conversation

Screenshot of a chat interface with Echidna Bot, showing a background image of yellow and green fungi or mold, with green-themed interface elements.

Two women having a video call: one with dark hair, glasses, beige top, smiling; the other with red hair, glasses, dark top, speaking.

A network diagram with three large black nodes connected to smaller colored nodes representing clusters, with orange, purple, green, and blue nodes, interconnected by gray lines.

Text spiral pattern reading 'baest' repeated in purple on a black background.

Woman with wavy, shoulder-length hair speaking during a video call in a room with a lamp, artwork, a window with blinds, and a white cabinet in the background.

A close-up of a page with a poem written in black text on a plain, creamy background. The poem mentions a wheel of fortune, liquid ibuprofen, water, dark blue green colors, a barnacle, cliffs of 2025, and a lil crone not yet done burning.

Cover of Chicago Review journal, featuring a green background with yellow grid lines and diagonal lines. Text includes 'Chicago Review Since 1946', volume and issue information, and mentions of small press poetry in the United States.

Cover of the American Literary History journal, Summer 2021, Volume 33, Number 2, published by Oxford University Press, featuring a purple background with a symmetrical star-shaped graphic.

Cover of a book titled 'The Cambridge Companion to the Essay,' edited by Kara Wittman and Evan Kindle, featuring a painting of a desk with a paper, a pen, and a tabletop calendar.

A row of colored pencils lined up on a white background, with their tips pointing upwards.

Book cover of 'Pet Sounds' by Stephanie Young with retro-style orange and pink lettering.

A black ink splatter with the words 'Poetry Daily' written in a circle inside it, on a light gray background.

A network diagram with interconnected nodes labeled with names such as Bigart, Olds, Voegt, Phillips, Pinsky, Doty, Hejman, Glick, Cale, Storn, Kinkel, Bigart, and others, connected by multiple curved lines.

Four identical awards with a metallic gold and black design placed on a wooden surface, with a blue curtain background.

Sketch of a young woman with long, wavy hair and expressive eyes, drawn in pink pencil.

A collage featuring plants, a shadow, a checkered pattern, and slices of orange.

A page of poetry with the words 'AVE | VIA' at the top, followed by a poem referencing birds, passage, and preying, in black text on a white background.

The image has the word 'VERSE' written in large gold letters on a dark gray background.

The cover of a book titled "It's No Good Everything's Bad" by Stephanie Young, featuring a light blue background with a stylized orange and pink geometric design of two semi-circles with radiating lines.

A heart-shaped graphic with a vintage-style illustration of a nude woman with flowers in her hair, overlaid with text that reads 'From our hearts to yours,' with the words 'from our hearts' on a ribbon across her head and 'to yours' on a ribbon below her.

Book cover titled "The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture," edited by Daniel Benjamin and Eric Sneathen, with a pink background featuring a collage of various objects and images.

A crowd of protesters holding signs and a large banner at a demonstration against the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, with buildings in the background.

Colorful braided rugs, a pink book, a black notebook, a tan notebook, and a book titled 'Sex, Class, & Culture' on a display of woven rugs.

Text reading 'The Poetry Project' enclosed in parentheses with backslashes

A group of people seated in chairs attending a presentation or poetry reading in a well-lit room with large windows.

Flat lay of lipstick tubes on a beige surface with black text reading 'A-S FP H&M P'.

Book cover titled "Ursula or University" by Stephanie Young with the title in lavender on a darker purple background.

Book cover titled 'Essay' by Stephanie Young, after Bernadette Mayer

A bookshelf with a stack of magazines, books, and a paper sleeve with a CD on a wooden shelf.

A collage of various images and patterns, including comic strip characters saying hello, a woman's face with striking eye makeup, a black-and-white patterned face, a surreal green hand with smoke, a classical sculpture with a modern overlay, rainbow-colored abstract shapes, and abstract backgrounds with graffiti elements.

Book cover titled "Allegaphone" with a black and white illustration of a hand holding a spider, a label "CHAINLINKS" in pink and yellow, and a list of editors and authors.

Book cover titled 'cento for love' by Stephanie Young.

Close-up of a book cover titled "Picture Palace" by Stephanie Young, featuring a blurred, sketch-like illustration of a face.

Optical illusion artwork with alternating pink and orange checkered pattern creating a 3D tunnel effect.

A page of text from "Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolano featuring a long paragraph of dialogue and narrative beginning with the phrase "For goodness's sake, Amadeo."

Webpage title "Jacket 2" featuring the subtitle 'The more territories, the more circulation' a post by Stephanie Young.

Stephanie Young standing in front of framed artwork on a wall in a dimly lit room. The room is Artists Television Access in San Francisco sometime in the 2000s.

Book cover titled "Telling the Future Off" by Stephanie Young depicting a woman lying on the ground, her arms raised above her head, with large illuminated neon circles in the background. The woman is prostrate before the neon.

Book cover titled 'Bay Poetics', edited by Stephanie Young, with an orange background and stylized black bat shapes with purple outlines at the top.