Acclaimed authors Mary Szybist and Endi Bogue Hartigan will read from their works of poetry on Tuesday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading room of the Jereld R. Nicholson Library at Linfield College.
This reading is the final event in the “Readings at the Nick” series for this academic year. The events will continue in the fall.
Szybist is the author of “Incarnadine,” winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. According to publisher Graywolf Press, Szybist “describes the confusion and even terror of moments in which our longing for the spiritual may also be a longing for what is most fundamentally alien to us.” She is also the author of “Granted,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Virginia Quarterly Review and more. Szybist teaches English at Lewis and Clark College.
Hartigan will read from “Pool [5 choruses],” currently a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in poetry and winner of the 2012 Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize. Hartigan’s work is “acrobatic and playful,” according to Publishers Weekly, “daring readers to consider intention and arbitrariness at once.” Hartigan is also the author of “One Sun Storm,” selected for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her work has appeared in New American Writing, VOLT, Verse, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Tinfish and others. She is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
The reading is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Linfield Nicholson Library and the Linfield English Department. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte at 503-883-2517, swhyte@linfield.edu.
