Union Institute & University’s Brattleboro Academic
Center will host a poetry reading with Chard
DeNiord, Julia Crane, and Lesle Lewis on Saturday, March 17, from 3:00
to 4:00 p.m. at the Brattleboro Academic Center located at 3 University
Way. Union alumnus and affiliate professor of Liberal Studies, Ben Mitchell, will host the reading. The event is part of an “Experience Day” where
prospective students can sit in on various faculty seminars to observe and
experience being a student at Union. Optional information sessions on adult
student concerns, financial aid, and the application process will also be
offered throughout the afternoon
CHARD DENIORD is the author of four books of poetry, The Double Truth (University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Night Mowing (The
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp
Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990). His book of
essays and interviews with seven senior American poets titled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs,
Conversations and Reflections on Twentieth Century American Poets was
published in December 2011 by Marick Press. He is the cofounder of the New
England College M.F.A. program in Poetry and an associate professor of English
at Providence College. He lives in Putney, Vermont.
JULIA CRANE is an affiliate professor of Liberal Studies at Union Institute & University.
Crane’s poems have appeared in Anthropaphogy,
Blood Lotus, Boulevard, Diner, 5AM, Mad Poets Review, Paper Street, Winterhawk Press,
and elsewhere. She holds an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature from the
Bennington Writing Seminars. Her first book, Twisted Little Love Stories, is coming out from Finishing Line
Press this spring.
LESLE LEWIS’ latest book lie
down too, is the winner of the 2010 Beatrice Hawley Award. Her previous collections
include Small Boat (winner of the
2002 Iowa Poetry Prize) and Landscapes I & II (winner of the Alice James
Books New York/New England Prize). Lewis has also published poems in numerous
journals including American Letters and
Commentary, Northern New England Review, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street,
Sentence, The Massachusetts Review, The Cincinnati Review, Mississippi Review,
Jubilat, and many others.
Lewis is a professor of English at Landmark College where
she teaches composition, literature, and creative writing courses.
