Andrea Scarpino to Host Reading for Poetry Book "Once, Then"

 

Saturday, April 5, 2014
2:00 p.m.

 

Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2692 Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45208

Andrea Scarpino, MFA, faculty member in Union Institute & University's Ph.D. program will host a reading of her new book Once, Then.

In her debut full-length poetry collection, Andrea Scarpino's elegies move between personal and political loss, between science, myth, and spirituality, and between lyric intensity and narrative clarity. At their heart is a longing for those we have lost, and an acknowledgement that loss irrevocably changes us and what we understand of the world. Blending mythological figures such as Persephone and Achilles, scientific approaches to knowledge learned from her microbiologist father, and a deep ambivalence regarding religious ideas of death and afterlife, Andrea’s poems invite us to examine the world, our own place in it, and what to make of its continual collapse.

Andrea received an MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State University. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in numerous journals, including The Cincinnati Review, Connecticut Review, The Los Angeles Review, PANK, and Prairie Schooner. She is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press, 2009). In addition to being a faculty member with Union Institute & University, Andrea is a weekly contributor for the blog "Planet of the Blind.”

Andrea’s book is also available on Amazon.

Third Annual Union Institute & University Poetry Reading

Saturday, March 16, 2013

3:00pm

Union Institute & University’s Third Annual Poetry Reading will feature Robin MacArthur, John Rose, and F.D. Reeve. This free, public event will be hosted at the University’s Brattleboro, Vermont academic center on March 16, 2013.

Robin MacArthur is an affiliated professor at Union Institute & University. A mother, writer and educator, MacArthur represents half of the indie-folk duo Red Heart the Ticker. Her essays and short fiction have been featured in Orion Magazine, Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review and on NPR.

John Rose’s work has appeared in numerous journals, including Old Crow, Jack Mackerel Magazine, and Today's Poets. According to Factsheet Five, Rose's epic poem “Woad” is "…excellent, Oz-like, written in a psychedelic style with a syntax all its own." Described by James Tate as "a powerful and original poet," Rose has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice.

F. D. (Frank) Reeve has published ten volumes of poetry, seven books of fiction, twelve books of translations, three books of literary criticism, four libretti, and countless uncollected essays, articles, stories, poems, reviews, and translations in journals including The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Sewanee Review. Reeve has won numerous awards and honors including the 2012 Award of the New England Book Festival for his novella, Nathaniel Purple.

For more information contact:
Ben Mitchell
ben.mitchell@myunion.edu
802-869-3378

Union Institute & University Brattleboro Academic Center
3 University Way Suite 3
Brattleboro, VT 05301-3669