Name: Geraldine Connolly & Dion O'Reilly
Start: 2026-01-25T15:00:00-08:00
Location: Art House Gallery & Cultural Center

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Geraldine Connolly and Dion O'Reilly, free, with refreshments.
Geraldine Connolly’s new poetry collection is “Instructions at Sunset.” She has published five previous poetry books. She has taught at the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, The Chautauqua Institution, and University of Arizona Poetry Center, and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland Arts Council, and Breadloaf Writers Conference. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. Her work has been anthologized in Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for High School Students, A Constellation of Kisses, and The Sonoran Desert: A Field Guide. She lives in Alameda, California.
Dion O'Reilly’s new book, “Limerence,” was finalist for The Floating Bridge John Pierce Chapbook Competition for Washington State Poets. She is also author of “Sadness of the Apex Predator,” and “Ghost Dogs” Her work appears in Rattle, New Ohio Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, and The Sun. Most recently, her work was chosen as a winner of the 17th Annual Narrative Poetry Prize. A podcaster at The Hive Poetry Collective, private workshop facilitator, and co-editor of En•Trance Journal, she splits her time between a ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Bellingham, Washington.