The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the Connecticut Poetry Circuit Reading Tour at 6pm on Tuesday, February 3rd in the Stern Lounge, Philip E. Austin building.
Each year the Connecticut Poetry Circuit holds a contest for undergraduate student poets. Each college in the state of Connecticut is eligible to nominate one undergraduate poet for consideration for the reading tour. For 2015, five students have been chosen: Kate Monica (University of Connecticut), Nikki Byrne (University of Saint Joseph), Lisa Gaudio (Central Connecticut State University), Justin Greene (Wesleyan University), and Jessica Yuan (Yale University).
Kate Monica, a 6th-semester English major, won the Collins Literary Prize for Poetry and finished second in the Wallace Stevens Poetry contest. She has been published in the Long River Review, Holey Scripture Magazine, and Orchid Children.
The reading, sponsored and organized by the UConn Co-op and the Creative Writing Program, is free and open to the public. The Stern Lounge is located in the Philip E. Austin building on UConn’s Storrs campus, room 217. For more information, please visit the Co-op’s webpage at www.bookstore.uconn.edu, or the Creative Writing Program’s website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Marissa Stanton at marissa.stanton@uconn.edu