Literary Readings/Events

August Kleinzahler has won the International Griffin Poetry Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has published eight books of poetry, most recently Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, and is also the author of two books of prose: Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained, a memoir about growing up in New Jersey, and Music I-LX XIV, a collection of his writings on music. Kleinzahler has been a logger, a manual laborer in Alaska, a locksmith, a cabdriver, an ESL teacher, and a teacher of poetry at some of the best universities in the country.

On October 27, 2011, Claire Hero visits the Advanced Poetry course of Deborah Poe, Ph.D., to talk about her poetry collection "Sing, Mongrel." Claire Hero is the author of "Sing, Mongrel," and three chapbooks: "Cabinet, afterpastures" (winner of the 2008

Leslie McGrath’s poems have been widely published in the US, as well as in England, Ireland and Japan. She is the author of the collection Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (2009), and the chapbook Toward Anguish, which won the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award. McGrath received her MFA in literature and poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars after receiving an MA in clinical psychology from Wesleyan University. Her poems have appeared frequently online and in print, and have been anthologized both in the US and India. McGrath was awarded a 2004 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism and has served on the judges’ panels for the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her literary interviews have been published frequently in The Writer's Chronicle and have also been aired on public radio.

This mini-exhibition included handmade and letterpress chapbooks, as well as one-of-a-kind editions and broadsides. Readers include Deborah Poe, Anne Gorrick, Kate Greenstreet, Brenda Iijima, Matthew Klane, Jill Magi, Dorothea Lasky and Lori Anderson Moseman.