The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that Alan Michael Parker will read his newest poetry from the collection The Ladder at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 22nd, at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center.
Parker is the author of three fiction novels, Cry Uncle, Whale Man, and The Committee on Town Happiness and eight poetry collections, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, Elephants & Butterflies, Ten Days (with painter Herb Jackson), Long Division and The Ladder. Tina Chang, 2010 Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, praises Parker and The Ladder for its ability to move between “wit and intimacy” and how it “illuminates the rapture of daily experience with unceasing intelligence.” The Ladder covers topics of politics, masculinity, and hotel sex with poems that are, as Tupelo Press states, “always tender and eccentric and nuanced.”
Parker teaches poetry, 20th, and 21st world literature at Davidson College, as well as works with the graduate students of poetry and fiction at University of Tampa’s Low-Residency M.F.A. program. His essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and more. More than 200 of Parker’s poems have been featured in journals and magazines ranging from The New Yorker to The Best American Poetry.
The reading, sponsored by the English Speaker’s Fund and organized by the UConn Creative Writing Program and the UConn Bookstore, is free and open to the public. The UConn Bookstore at Storrs Center is located off-campus in downtown Storrs at 1 Royce Circle. For more information, please visit the Bookstore’s webpage at www.uconnbookstore.com or the Creative Writing Program’s website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Jameson Croteau at jameson.croteau@uconn.edu