Alex Mouw Book Launch

Join us to celebrate National Poetry Month with the launch of The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey by Alex Mouw. Alex will be in conversation with Little Professor's M.K. Foster. 

• Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 6pm
• Little Professor 
  

About the Book 

The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey confronts religious devotion as something you grasp and something that seizes you. By turns meditative, ecstatic, and snarky, Alex Mouw's poems capture the sermons and lamentations, the preachers and seekers, the politics and piety of midwestern evangelical Christianity.

About the Author

Alex Mouw is an assistant professor at Samford University, teaching courses in creative writing, composition, and literature. His work explores lyric poetic traditions, modernism, and American culture. His current academic book project, Poets Against History: American Lyric and Historiography after 1945, argues that postwar American poets have competed with the work of historians in an effort to transcend history, to correct its gaps, or to change its course. His poetry appears in many journals, including The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, and West Branch. His scholarship on American literature appears in Twentieth-Century Literature, African American Review, Literature & Theology, and other venues.