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October, 2024
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Event:
Nathan McClain & Henk Rossouw
Date:
October 29th, 2024.
Time:
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Location:
Barnes & Noble UConn Hartford Bookstore
Contact:
julie.choffel@uconn.edu
Poetry Reading: Nathan McClain & Henk Rossouw
Tuesday, October 29 @ 5:30 PM
Barnes & Noble UConn Hartford Bookstore
18 Front St, Hartford, CT
This event is free and open to the public.
Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Green Mountains Review, Zocalo Public Square, The Critical Flame, and On The Seawall, among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as Poetry Editor for The Massachusetts Review.
Henk Rossouw is from Cape Town, South Africa. His book-length poem Xamissa, published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor's Prize. His poems have been featured in literary journals such as POETRY and The Paris Review. An Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Henk teaches at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he serves as the Co-Director of the UL Lafayette Creative Writing Program. He’s an associate editor for Tupelo Quarterly and a consulting editor for the African Poetry Book Series at the University of Nebraska Press.
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