{"product_id":"alex-mouw-book-launch","title":"Alex Mouw Book Launch","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoin us to celebrate National Poetry Month with the launch of\u003cem\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/unbelieving-yelp-of-prey-poems-volume-45\"\u003eThe Unbelieving Yelp of Prey\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eby Alex Mouw. Alex will be in conversation with Little Professor's M.K. Foster. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWednesday, April 22, 2026 at 6pm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLittle Professor \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-sleek-node-id=\"QA6UD5\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unbelieving Yelp of Prey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlex 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis current academic book project, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoets Against History: American Lyric and Historiography after 1945\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWest Branch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. His scholarship on American literature appears in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwentieth-Century Literature, African American Review, Literature \u0026amp; Theology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and other venues.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little Professor","offers":[{"title":"Ticket","offer_id":48413955555555,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ticket + Book","offer_id":48413955588323,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Student Ticket","offer_id":48843191550179,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/files\/AlexMouw.png?v=1772742109","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/alex-mouw-book-launch","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}