The reading will take place at 6:00 pm in the UConn Storrs Center Co-op at 1 Royce Circle.
Collins has published multiple works of poetry, including The Catastrophe of Rainbows (1985), Day Unto Day (2014), and Gone So Far (2005). According to author Alice Fulton, Blue Front (2006), centered on the history of race and racism in the United States, is an “original collage that conveys the texture and complexity of the events surrounding a lynching in 1909.” The work received an Ohioana award and praise from fellow poets, such as Jean Valentine, who said: “I admire everything Martha Collins has written, and I feel she was born to write this book.” Day Unto Day also received much acclaim. Kazim Ali wrote that this work was “an artistic intervention taking the ordinary into the extraordinary for great generous intent-a quotidian preparation for human Being.” Currently, she is the editor at Oberlin College Press and editor-at-large for FIELD magazine.
For more information, contact: Carla Calandra at carla.calandra@uconn.edu