Join us in Memorial Hall on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus on Thursday, November 13 at 8 p.m. for this reading by Gillian Conoley. All VWS events are free, open to the public, and handicap accessible.
Gillian Conoley's collections include
Profane Halo (Wave Books 2005);
Lovers in the Used World (Carnegie Mellon, 2001);
Beckon (Carnegie Mellon, 1996);
Tall Stranger (Carnegie Mellon, 1991), finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award; and
Some Gangster Pain (Carnegie Mellon, 1987). A recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, several Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and a Fund for Poetry Award, she is the professor and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University, where she is the founder and editor of Volt. Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in W.W. Norton's
American Hybrid, Scribner's
Best American Poetry, Fence's
Best of Fence, Counterpath's
Lyric Postmodernisms, and the Italian anthology,
Nuova Poesia Americana, published by Oscar Mondadori. Her latest book,
Plot Genie, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in Fall 2009.
