Poetry Reading by Julie Choffel
The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that poet Julie Choffel will read at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9. The reading will be held at the Storrs Center Cooperative Bookstore, One Royce Circle, 101 Storrs Center, Storrs, CT 06268.
Julie Choffel grew up in Austin, Texas. She is the author of The Hello Delay, which won the Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University Press (2012), as well as the chapbook Figures in a Surplus (Achiote Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in The Seattle Review, Denver Quarterly, American Letters & Commentary, Fairy Tale Review, Art New England, and elsewhere. She also curates the Inescapable Rhythms reading series in Hartford and teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut.
This reading marks the first event of this academic year’s Long River Reading Series. Each reading in this series features an accomplished guest writer as well as readings by a University of Connecticut graduate student and an undergraduate student. For more information on the Creative Writing Program, please visit our website at http://creativewriting.uconn.edu/.
For more information, contact: Erick Piller at erick.piller@uconn.edu