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Join us for our February poetry reading at the Claremont Helen Renwick public library.Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featured Poets: Elline Lipkin & Prageeta Sharma
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, February 28, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Prageeta Sharma is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Onement Won (Wave Books, 2025); Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019) a narrative reflection on grief over the loss of a loved one; and Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Four Quartets Prize, she has taught at The New School for Social Research, Goddard College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the University of Montana, and is now the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College.
Elline Lipkin is a poet, nonfiction writer, and academic. She holds an MFA and a PhD in Creative Writing and was a Research Scholar with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. Part of the Seal Studies series, her second book, Girls' Studies, explores contemporary girlhood. Her third is Girl in a Forest, released in October 2025 by Trio House Press. A finalist for the AWP Kurt Brown prize, she has also been a mentor for Writer to Writer and is active with WriteGirl in Los Angeles. The Proem is her monthly Substack. For two years, she served her community as editor of the Altadena Poetry Review and Poet Laureate.
Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
Learn more about the Claremont Helen Renwick Library at https://www.claremontlibrary.org/
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208 Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA, United States, California 91711
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