02/16 - Time: 8 p.m.

Poetry Reading

Visiting Writers Series sponsored by SCSU's Creative Writing Program

Kristin Bock holds a B.A. in English Literature from Southern Connecticut State University, and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she teaches. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines and journals, including Columbia, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Black Warrior Review, and Fence. Bock is a contributing editor at Bateau, a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her book, Cloisters (2008), won Tupelo Press's First Book Award and The da Vinci Eye Award.

Jim Reese is assistant professor of English and director of the Great Plains Writers'  Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, as well as editor-in-chief of Paddlefish. Reese's poetry and prose have been widely published, most recently in New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, and Connecticut Review. His latest collection, These Trespasses, includes Pushcart Prize-nominated poems. Reese has been the National Endowment for the Art's Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp since 2008. His second book, Ghost on Third, is forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books.

Admission: FREE

Location: Engleman D253 (English Department Common Room)

Contact Information: Tim Parrish, (203) 392-6745 , parrisht1@southernct.edu