Poetry Reading by Kathryn Cowles and Donald Revell

Thu Apr 23 2026 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm UTC-04:00

Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library | Cincinnati

University of Cincinnati English Department
Publisher/HostUniversity of Cincinnati English Department
Poetry Reading by Kathryn Cowles and Donald Revell
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About this Event

The Elliston Poetry Room is located in Suite 646 on the 6th Floor of Langsam Library on the UC Uptown Campus at 2911 Woodside Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45221. Public parking is available in the Woodside Garage beneath Langsam Library, or along Martin Luther King Drive on the north edge of the Uptown Campus. An elevator in Woodside Garage will take you to Floor 4 (ground level) and once inside Langsam Library another elevator can take you to floor 6.

Kathryn Cowles’s third book of poems, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor, won the Fence Modern Poets Prize and will be published in December of 2025. Poems from this book won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Manuscript-in-Progress Award, and collages from it were collected together in Feminine Monstrous, a solo art exhibition. Other books include Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed Editions) and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (Bear Star), which won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. Her poems and poem-photographs have been published in Best American Experimental Writing, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Diagram, Free Verse, Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, New American Writing, Verse, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day, and elsewhere. She earned her doctorate from the University of Utah and is an associate professor of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where she directs (rotating) the Trias Residency for Writers and co-edits the Beyond Category section of Seneca Review.

Donald Revell is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, six volumes of translations from the French, and three volumes of critical writings, including Essay: A Critical Memoir. A former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, he is the winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry. His latest book of poems, Canandaigua (Alice James Books), was named a must-read book of 2024 by both Publishers Weekly and LitHub.

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Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library, 2911 Woodside Drive, Cincinnati, United States

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