The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that poet Miller Oberman will read on Tuesday, April 12, at 6 p.m. at the Storrs Center Cooperative Bookstore, One Royce Circle, 101 Storrs Center, Storrs, CT 06268.
This reading marks the third and final event of this academic year’s Long River Reading Series. Previous readers this year were Julie Choffel and Reginald Dwayne Betts. For this event, Miller Oberman will present his work alongside readings by graduate student Anna Ziering and undergraduate student Shannon Hearn.
Miller Oberman was a 2005 Ruth Lilly Fellow, and his translation of the “Old English Rune Poem” won Poetry’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation in 2013. In addition, he was recently named a winner of 92Y’s 2016 Discovery Contest. Miller has work forthcoming in Poetry, Tin House,and The Nation, and is currently finishing “The Ruin,” a collection of poems and Old English translations. Miller’s poem “Who People Are” was featured on Poetry Daily. He lives in Brooklyn and studies poetics at the University of Connecticut.
Anna Ziering received her BA from Barnard College in 2011, where she studied with Saskia Hamilton, and her MFA from Boston University in 2015, where she worked with Robert Pinsky, Dan Chiasson, and Henri Cole. She attended the Kenyon Writers Workshop in 2015. She has been published in The Rumpus and 236 and has work forthcoming with Skylark Review and Little Lantern Press. She is currently an MA/PhD student in English at UConn.
Shannon Hearn is a double major in journalism and English with a concentration in creative writing at the University of Connecticut. She has been previously published in Long River Review and has work forthcoming in Words Dance Publishing.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact: Erick Piller at erick.piller@uconn.edu