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Joan Houlihan and Fred Marchant
April 25, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Joan Houlihan will be reading poems from her newly-published book, Shadow-feast, from Four Way Books.
Houlihan is the author of four other books of poetry: Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays (2003); The Mending Worm, (which received the 2006 Green Rose Award from New Issues Press); The Us (2009), which received a Must Read distinction from the Massachusetts Center for the Book; and Ay (2014), a sequel to The Us, both from Tupelo Press.
She currently serves on the faculty of Lesley University’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is Professor of Practice at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Houlihan also founded and directs the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.
http://www.colrainpoetry.com/
Fred Marchant is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Said Not Said (2017). Earlier books include The Looking House, Full Moon Boat, and House on Water, House in Air.
His first book, Tipping Point, won the 1993 Washington Prize, and was reissued in a 20th anniversary second edition. Marchant has translated works by Vietnamese poets Tran Dang Khoa and Vo Que.
He has also edited Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford.
An emeritus professor of English, Marchant is also the founding director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center in Boston.