Dear Friend, Let's Meet: A Roaming Poetry Reading with AiR Carolyn Oliver

Join poet and artist-in-residence Carolyn Oliver on Saturday, Apr. 13 for a celebratory outdoor reading of poems composed during her residency. The program will begin in Bigelow Chapel with an introduction and brief Q&A between Carolyn and Public Events Producer Julie-Anne Whitney. Then the group will head outdoors together for a multi-stop reading tour during which Carolyn will read several poems in the locations that inspired them. After the roaming reading, the group will return to Bigelow Chapel for an audience Q&A with the poet. Check-in will be at Bigelow Chapel. For inquiries about accessibility, to request an accommodation, or questions about membership, please contact friends@mountauburn.org.

Carolyn Oliver (@CarolynROliver on Instagram) is the author of "The Alcestis Machine" (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024) and "Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble" (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected by Matthew Olzmann for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry), as well as three chapbooks. Her poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, Southern Indiana Review, At Length, Plume, and elsewhere. Her honors include the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Frank O’Hara Prize from The Worcester Review, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize in both poetry and fiction.