Poet to Read as Part of A.K. Smith Series

Nancy Eimers

What: Nancy Eimers, an award-winning poet and creative writer, will read from her work as part of the ongoing Allan K. Smith Fall Reading Series.  The event is free and open to the public.  A book signing and reception will follow.

When: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 ~ 4:30PM  

Where: Reese Room, Smith House on the campus on Trinity College
115 Vernon Street, Hartford, Conn. 06106

Background: 
Nancy Eimers is the author of three collections of poetry: A Grammar to Waking (Carnegie Mellon, 2006), No Moon, winner of the 1997 Verna Emery Prize (Purdue University Press), and Destroying Angel (Wesleyan/University Press of New England, 1991). She has been the recipient of a Nation “Discovery” Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and a Whiting Writer’s Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, including Best American Poetry 1996, Poets of the New Century, The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Field. She teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University and at Vermont College, and she lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
 
This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Tracy Quigley at 860/297-2568, or by email at Tracy.Quigley@trincoll.edu.

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