[Yale-readings] Tuesday 4-21: poet Penelope Pelizzon

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Award-winning poet Penelope Pelizzon reads at CCSU on Tuesday, April 21st in Marcus White Living Room at noon. Free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served. V. Penelope Pelizzon was born in 1967 in Massachusetts. Her first poetry collection, Nostos (2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She is also co-author of a critical study, Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (2010), and other essays on visual culture. Her poems have received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship and a Discovery/The Nation Award, while her prose has twice been listed among the year’s “notable essays” in the Best American Essays series. A diplomat’s spouse, she navigates between postings abroad and her current position as Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book Whose Flesh is Flame, Whose Bone is Time just came out with Waywiser Press.
For more information: Ravi Shankar ravi at drunkenboat.com<mailto:ravi at drunkenboat.com>.
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