Matt Hart and Nate Pritts to Read at the University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that editors/authors Matt Hart and Nate Pritts will be giving a poetry reading at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, April 1, in the new Co-Op bookstore in Storrs Center. This is part of the “Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write” series.
Matt Hart is the author of several chapbooks and five books of poems including Who’s Who Vivid, Wolf Face, and his latest publication, Debacle Debacle. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in The Academy of American Poets online, Cincinnati Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and other print and online journals. He has won a Pushcart Prize, a 2013 grant from The Shifting Foundation, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL.
Nate Pritts is the author of several collections of poetry, including Right Now More Than Ever and the chapbook Pattern Exhaustion. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Southern Review, Forklift, Ohio, and many other journals. His prose about poetry can be found in Poets & Writers magazine. Pritts has an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in British Romanticism from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He founded H_NGM_N, an online journal and small press, and continues to serve as its director and prime architect.
Longtime friends, Hart and Pritts originally worked as co-editors and authors of Forklift, Ohio. Together they have experience on both ends of the publishing spectrum, making them prime candidates for UConn's "Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write" event. This event focuses on teaching students what it's licke to be a full-time editor while also tending to one's own writing.
The reading, sponsored by the University of Connecticut Creative Writing Program and the UConn Co-op, is free and open to the public. The new Co-op bookstore is located in Storrs Center at One Royce Circle, Unit 101. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Sean Forbes at sean.forbes@uconn.edu