Grolier Poetry Book Shop Winter- Spring Series
Please join us
January 7th, 2020
For a Reading Featuring:
Wayne Miller
Kevin Prufer
Andrea Read
WAYNE MILLER is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Post- (Milkweed, 2016), which won the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award, and The City, Our City (2011), which was shortlisted for the Rilke Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award. His fifth collection, We the Jury, is forthcoming from Milkweed in early 2021. He has co-translated two books by the Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo—most recently Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015), which was shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation—and he has co-edited three books, most recently Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed, 2016; w/ Kurowski & Prufer). The recipient of the George Bogin Award, the Lucille Medwick Award, the Lyric Poetry Award, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Prize, Miller teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, co-curates the Unsung Masters Series, and edits Copper Nickel.
Kevin Prufer is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies, the most recent of which are How He Loved Them (Four Way Books, 2018), Churches (Four Way Books, 2014), In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011), National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008; w/ Wayne Miller), Literary Publishing in the 21st Century (Milkweed Editions, 2016; w/ Wayne Miller & Travis Kurowski), and Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries (Graywolf Press, 2017; w/Martha Collins).
Andrea Read’s poems have appeared most recently in Barrow Street, Black Rabbit Quarterly, Copper Nickel, FIELD, Goliad (forthcoming), The Ilanot Review, Plume, Lily Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. She is a Pushcart nominee, a recipient of a National Resource Fellowship, a Tinker Foundation Grant, an Artist’s Fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council., and an artist’s residency at Joya: AiR in Spain. Founder of the Poetry Lab at the Jeanne Jugan Residence in Somerville, Andrea divides her time between Somerville, Massachusetts and Brooks, Maine, where she and her family tend 500 acres of forest
