The Big Texas Read featuring Allison Hedge Coke Join Gemini Ink as they talk with 2022 National Book Award Finalist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, author of the book-length poem, Look at This Blue. Acclaimed poet and memoirist Jan Beatty will moderate this session. Interweaving elegy, indictment, and hope into a love letter to California, Look at This Blue examines America’s genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril.