R157. Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poets Reading

Cody D. Todd Memorial Stage, Sponsored by USC, Exhibit Halls D & E, Convention Center, Level Two
Thursday, February 9, 2017
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

Naugatuck River Review is a journal of "narrative poetry that sings" in its ninth year of publication. Poets from the summer/fall 2016 issue and the 2017 contest issue are reading their beautifully crafted narrative poems. The 2017 contest judge is Tara Betts. NRR publisher, Lori Desrosiers, is the host.


Participants

Moderator:

Lori Desrosiers's poetry books include The Philosopher’s Daughter, Inner Sky, and Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak. She teaches at Westfield State University, Holyoke Community College, and Lesley MFA program. She is the editor of Naugatuck River Review.

Lisa Kwong is an AppalAsian poet. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, the Minnesota Review, and other journals. She currently teaches English and Asian American studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Eileen Cleary earned an MFA in poetry at Lesley University. She is a member of Poemworks in Newton, Massachusetts, and of Concord Poetry Center Poetry workshop. She has studied poetry at Grub Street, Boston, and the New York Writer's Studio, and she is a founding member of the Charles River Roundtable Poetry Salon in Needham, Massachusetts.

Lucille Lang Day, publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books and coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, is the author of ten poetry collections, including Becoming an Ancestor, and an award-winning memoir, Married at Fourteen. She is a nine-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

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