The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that Allison Joseph will read from her poetry collections at 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 23, in the Stern Lounge, room 217 in the Philip E. Austin Building at the University of Connecticut. She will also give a talk as part of the “Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write” series where she will discuss the balance between creative and editorial work.
Joseph is the author of twelve poetry chapbooks, Double Identity, The Purpose of Hands, Multitudes, Mortal Rewards, Mercurial, My Father’s Kites: Poems, Voice: Poems, Worldly Pleasures, Imitation of Life: Poems, Soul Train, In Every Seam, and What Keeps Us Here. She is also a co-founder of the Crab Orchard Review, now on its 22nd volume. The Crab Orchard Review, founded in 1995, has offered rewards and publication for student work and open submissions in both fiction and poetry. The most prestigious of the rewards are the Open Competition Award and the First Book Award. Both offer a publication for a full collection of poems between 50 and 75 pages.
The reading event, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and co-sponsored by the English Speaker’s Fund and the UConn Bookstore, is free and open to the public. The event will be held in the Stern Lounge, room 217 in the Philip E. Austin Building. The Austin Building is located at 215 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06268, just off of the intersection between North Eagleville Road and Glenbrook Road. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program’s website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Jameson Croteau at jameson.croteau@uconn.edu