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.
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 University of Connecticut graduate student Erin Lynn and undergraduate Nicholas DiBenedetto.
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 teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut.
Erin Lynn is a first-year PhD student in English. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and an MA in Irish writing from Queen’s University, Belfast. She is editor of the “This Morning” column at Coldfront Magazine and co-curates Poor Mouth Poetry at An Beal Bocht Cafe in the Bronx. Her ten-poem pamphlet was published last year by Life Boat Press. She splits her time between Willimantic and Manhattan.
Please visit http://creativewriting.uconn.edu/ for more information on the Creative Writing Program.
For more information, contact: Erick Piller at erick.piller@uconn.edu