Nicole Sealey reads excerpts from her latest book, Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017), at James Madison University as part of the Furious Flower Poetry Center's fall reading series. Born in St.Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Sealey is also the author of The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere.