This virtual event will feature readings by:

Barbara Crooker
Elaine Terranova

Open mic to follow. Hosted by Sibelan Forrester

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Barbara Crooker is author of twelve chapbooks and ten full-length books of poetry, including Some Glad Morning, Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Poetry Press, longlisted for the Julie Suk award from Jacar Press, The Book of Kells, which won the Best Poetry Book of 2019 Award from Poetry by the Sea, and Slow Wreckage (Grayson Books, 2024). Her other awards include: Grammy Spoken Word Finalist, the WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and three Pennsylvania Council fellowships in literature. Her work appears in literary journals and anthologies, including The Bedford Introduction to Literature.

Elaine Terranova grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, worked as a factory worker, office temp, preschool teacher, and editor. She taught at Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University, University of Delaware, and in the Rutgers MFA in Creative Writing program. She is author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Rinse (Grid Books, 2023) and two chapbooks. Terranova's first book, The Cult of the Right Hand won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award. She is also author of The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter: a Poet’s Memoir. Her poems and prose has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, the Woven Tale Press, Hotel Amerika, and other magazines and anthologies. Here translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Series in Translation. She is currently working on a translation of the French poet Ariane Dreyfus. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Margaret Banister residency at Sweet Briar College, the Judah L. Magnes Gold Medal, the 2024 Maurice English Award in Poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Pew Center.