Event Details
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Date & Time
Thursday, Mar 21, 2024 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Cost
This event is free.
Location
College Common, Humanities Building
Event Type & Tags
About This Event
GU alumnae Laura Read is a poet and educator living in Spokane. She is the author of Dresses from the Old Country (forthcoming from BOA Editions, 2018); Instructions for my Mother’s Funeral (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Dorianne Laux), and The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You (winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, 2011). Her poems appear widely. Recipient of a Washington State Artists Trust Grant, a Florida Review Prize for Poetry, and the Crab Creek Review Prize for Poetry, Laura teaches and presents regularly at literary festivals and conferences throughout the Northwest, such as GetLit!, Write on the Sound, Litfuse, and the Port Townsend Writers Conference. Laura served as Poet Laureate of Spokane from 2015-2017 and teaches writing and literature at Spokane Falls Community College.She will be joined by the student winners of the 2023-2024 Gurian Writing Awards. A reception will follow.