| | Event: | Wordhouse Reading Series, West Hartford | | Date: | February 17th, 2024.
| | Time: | 2:00 PM | | Location: | Noah Webster House, 227 South Main Street, West Hartford CT 06107 | | Contact: | Jim Finnegan, jforjames@aol.com | | Website: | https://wordhousereadings.blogspot.com/ | Anna V. Q. Ross's most recent book, Flutter, Kick, won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press, the Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry from the Boston Authors Club, and was named a Best New Poetry Book by the New York Public Library. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Fulbright Foundation, among others, her work appears in The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. Anna teaches at Tufts University and through the Emerson Prison Initiative. She lives with her family in Dorchester, MA, where she raises chickens. Find her at annavqross.com
Martha Collins has published eleven books of poetry, most recently, Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022) and Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019); the latter won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has also co-translated five volumes of Vietnamese poetry, most recently, Dreaming the Mountain by Tu? S?, with Nguyen Ba Chung (Milkweed, 2023). Collins founded the UMass Boston creative writing program and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin. Her website is marthacollinspoet.com
Reading begins with an Open Mike.
Free event. Please consider making a donation to Noah Webster House.
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