• Series 13 •

Saturday, December 8 
7pm
The Sharon Arts Exhibition Gallery
$5 suggested

Poems by
Jack Christian
Patrick Donnelly

STAY FOR THE "ConVERSE" Q&A WITH THE POETS, FOLLOWING THE READING .  

Jack Christian is the author of Family System, which received the 2012 Colorado Prize for poetry, and the chapbook Let's Collaborate from Magic Helicopter Press. His poems have appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Mississippi Review, and Web Conjunctions. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he lives currently in Amherst Massachusetts and teaches writing at Westfield State University.

Patrick Donnelly is the author of The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press) and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012). He is director of the Advanced Seminar at The Frost Place, an associate editor of Poetry International, a contributing editor of Tran(s)tudies (www.transtudies.org), and has taught creative writing at Colby College, Smith College, the Lesley University MFA Program, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Slate, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, and many other journals. With Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly is co-translator of the Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period, a scholarly history and analysis forthcoming from Cornell East Asia Series. Website: http://www.patrickdonnellypoems.com