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Apr 27 2022 - 7:00pm
Please join us on Wednesday, April 27th at 7 pm via Zoom for a reading by award-winning poet Atsuro Riley, who will read from his latest publications and answer questions from attendees.
Register in advance for this meeting
Atsuro Riley is the author of Heard-Hoard, which has been longlisted for PEN America’s Voelcker Poetry Award, named a Boston Globe ‘Best Book of 2021,’ listed among the ‘Top 10 Books of the Year’ by Bookworm, and awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola prize.
His first book Romey’s Order received the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. Riley’s work has been honored with the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wood Prize given by POETRY magazine.