In this 2022 event from UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems series, Jake Skeets reads a selection of poems, some of which appear in his debut collection, Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed Editions, 2019). A Q&A with Skeets about his second collection, Horses (Milkweed Editions, 2026), appears in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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