Wintonbury Poetry Series (Virtual)

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Jennifer Franklin is the author of three full-length collections including If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, March 2023) and No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). Franklin is the recipient of a 2021 NYFA/City Artist Corps grant for poetry and a 2021 CRCF Literature Award. Her work has been published in American Poetry Review, Beloit, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, JAMA, The Nation, New England Review, the Paris Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Poetry Society’s Poetry in Motion, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, and Valparaiso Review, among other places. She teaches in Manhattanville's MFA program and the Hudson Valley Writers Center, where she serves as Program Director. She lives in New York City. For more about Franklin’s poetry visit jenniferfranklinpoet.com.

Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022). He runs a manuscript consultation service at www.seansingerpoetry.com.

Hosted by Garrett Phelan. Open Mic follows the featured poets and is hosted by Sitara Gnanaguru. Sign up during registration or email Mara (below). Upon registering your email for this program, you will receive the Zoom link to join. All participants will start with video off and sound muted. No computer/internet at home? Call the Library for the phone number, meeting ID & password and join us over the phone.

Event Type(s): Adult Program

Age Group(s): Teens (13-18), Adults

Presenter: Jennifer Franklin and Sean Singer

Mara Whitman

(860) 463-8683

mwhitman@libraryconnection.info

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