jubilat/Jones Poetry Reading
Jericho Brown
&
CAConrad
Sunday, February 21, 3:00 pm
Trustees Room
Jones Library
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.
The reading will be followed by a Q&A session with both guest poets, during which visitors can meet the poets
All events are free
and open to the public.
Jericho Brown worked as speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. His first book, “Please” (New Issues), won the 2009 American Book Award.
CAConradis the recipient of The Gil Ott Book Award for “The Book of Frank” (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of “Advanced Elvis Course” (Soft Skull Press, 2009), “(Soma)tic Midge” (Faux Press, 2008), “Deviant Propulsion” (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a forthcoming collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock, “The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems” (Factory School Books, 2010).
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 February 16, 2010