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Join us for our October poetry reading at the Claremont Helen Renwick public library!Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featuring: Lory Bedikian & Anna Leahy
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, October 26, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
All are welcome! Books will be available for purchase. Here's a little information about the poets:
Lory Bedikian’s Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Poetry Book Prize from the University of Nebraska Press. Her first collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize. Bedikian’s poems received the Neruda Prize for Poetry in the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards. She has been featured on Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Poetry Unbound podcast. Her work is included in the anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration, KNOPF, 2020. Bedikian’s manuscript-in-progress received a 2021 grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. New work appears in Massachusetts Review’s “Revisiting WOMAN,” SWWIM and is forthcoming in Ploughshares.
Anna Leahy’s latest books are the poetry collections If in Some Cataclysm, What Happened Was:, and Aperture. She authored the nonfiction book Tumor and is co-author of Generation Space and Conversing With Cancer. Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Bennington Review, Comstock Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Scientific American, and more; her essays have won top prizes from the Mississippi Review, Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter, and Dogwood. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University, where she edits the international Tab Journal.
Note: Claremont's Village Venture arts & crafts festival is the same day as poetry. Be sure to plan ahead, as parking will be impacted.
Please note that Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
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208 N Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, United States