August Featured Poet: Lisa Coffman

Mon Aug 05 2024 at 07:00 pm

Plenty Downtown Bookshop | Cookeville

Sawmill Poetry Series
Publisher/HostSawmill Poetry Series
August Featured Poet: Lisa Coffman
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This month's event is guest hosted by Helen Hunt, and co-sponsored by Tennessee Tech's Women's Center. We're so excited to welcome Lisa Coffman!
Lisa Coffman grew up in East Tennessee and currently lives on California’s Central Coast. She has studied and worked in intensely different environments, all of which feed her writing–New York City, Philadelphia, and Bonn, Germany; the remote high desert of Deep Springs Valley; and the abandoned coal mining town of Glenmary, Tennessee.
She is the author of two collections of poetry: Likely, which won Kent State University Press’s Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and Less Obvious Gods. Her writing has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry. She collaborated with composer Timothy Melbinger on the six-poem cycle Hymns to Less Obvious Gods, which premiered in spring 2019.
Plenty Downtown Bookshop is located at 48 W Broad St, Cookeville, Tennessee. Arrive by 6:45 to sign up for the open mic.
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Plenty Downtown Bookshop, 48 West Broad Street,Cookeville, Tennessee, United States

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