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In Conversation: Allison Adair & Eileen Cleary
May 22, 2022 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Join us for an afternoon of conversation, curiosity, and community. Poets Allison Adair and Eileen Cleary will read from their new books, and chat with each other about the making of poetry. Get unique insights on craft and revision and all things creative.
About Allison Adair
Allison Adair’s first collection, The Clearing, was selected by Henri Cole as winner of Milkweed’s Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, and ZYZZYVA; and her work has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and first place in the Fineline Competition from Mid-American Review. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Allison teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.
About Eileen Cleary
Eileen Cleary is the author of Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021). In addition, she co-edited the anthology Voices Amidst the Virus, the featured text at the 2021 Michigan State University Filmetry Festival. Her poem “The Way We Fled” was recently anthologized in Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poetry (Grayson Books, 2022.)