December 15, 2019
Featured Reader: Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro has published many poetry collections (including
Reel to Reel, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and
Night of the Republic, finalist for both the National Book Award and the International Griffin Prize), four books of prose, including
The Last Happy Occasion, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, LA Times Book Prize, an award in literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, he is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent books include
Life Pig (poems),
That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration (essays), and his latest,
Against Translation (poems), all from University of Chicago press. Shapiro is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Opening Reader: Dorian Kotsiopoulos
Dorian Kotsiopoulos has been featured at various poetry venues in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in literary and medical journals, including
Poet Lore,
Salamander,
New England Journal of Medicine,
JAMA,
Women’s Review of Books,
Third Wednesday, and
Smartish Pace. Dorian loves studying poetry at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
