jubilat/Jones Poetry Reading
Dave Brinks
&
Nate Pritts
Sunday, March 21, 3:00 pm
Trustees Room
Jones Library
The reading will be followed by a Q&A session with both guest poets, during which visitors can meet the poets
At 2 PM, Dara Wier, Ben Kopel, and Zach Savich will host a poetry swap in the Trustees Room. Bring a poem--your own or someone else's--to share and discuss.
All events are free
and open to the public.
David Brinks was born and still lives in New Orleans, LA. He is the editor of YAWP: A Journal of Poetry and Art, publisher of Trembling Pillow Press, and a founder of The New Orleans School for the Imagination. Brinks' poetry has been published in dozens of magazines, journals, and anthologies throughout the US and abroad, and his works have aired on NPR's All Things Considered and on PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Brinks is the author of 12 books of poems, including Caveat Onus: The Complete Poem Cycle (Black Widow Press, 2009).
Nate Pritts is the author of The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008), and Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007). His poetry and prose have been published widely in journals such as The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Forklift, Ohio, and Octopus. The founder and principal editor of H_NGM_N, Pritts lives in Syracuse, NY, where he teaches poetry for the Downtown Writer's Center/YMCA and works online with gifted students through Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth.
For more information call 413-577-1064.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Jones Library, jubilat & the Juniper Initiative of the UMass MFA Program for Poets & Writers, the Amherst Cultural Council, Factory Hollow Press, and LEVSCo Furniture, the jubilat/Jones Series showcases established and emerging poets in six readings each year.
This page last updated on March 16, 2010