UConn’s Creative Writing Program announces this school year’s third and final Long River Reading Series event at 6 pm on Wednesday, April 19, at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center. The reading will begin with a short open mic, followed by three featured readers:
Jameson Croteau is an eighth-semester undergrad pursuing an English and Business Management dual degree with concentrations in Creative Writing and Entrepreneurship. His poetry has been published in The Slag Review and his nonfiction and fiction will be published in the 20th anniversary edition of the Long River Review. Eventually, he intends to undertake an MFA and write historical fiction about the American Revolution and coming-of-age tales centered in the mill cities of New England.
Kerry Carnahan is pursuing doctoral studies in English at UConn, where she is preparing a new translation of the Song of Songs with commentary. She is an urban environmentalist, former Fulbright Scholar, and MacDowell fellow in 2013, and her poetry has appeared in Poetry Ireland, The Missouri Review, and is forthcoming in Boston Review.
Ciaran Berry is a 2012 Whiting Writers’ Award winner. His full-length collections are The Sphere of Birds (2008), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, and The Dead Zoo (2013), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His work has been featured in The Best of Irish Poetry, Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, and Best New Poets, as well as in journals such as AGNI, Ecotone, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, The Missouri Review, and The Southern Review. He grew up in Connemara and Donegal in the west of Ireland, and currently teaches in the creative writing program at Trinity College in Hartford.
The reading, co-sponsored with the UConn Bookstore, is free and open to the public. Come on down for our ever-popular reading series with an open mic and featured readers! Bring a poem, short prose piece, or music to share; enjoy coffee, tea, and snacks with other members of the UConn Creative Writing community. Everyone is welcome.
For more information, contact: Sean Forbes at sean.forbes@uconn.edu