Linda Gregerson: Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute
This event on 7th December 2015 at 19:30 has past.
Contact: 202.544.7077
Poet, Renaissance scholar, and classically trained actress, Linda Gregerson brings her unique voice to this annual poetry reading in honor of Emily Dickinson. Gregerson is the author of eight poetry collections, including Prodigal, New and Selected Poems, The Selvage, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize), Magnetic North (finalist for the National Book Award), and Waterborne (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award). In 2015, Gregerson was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
At the reception following the reading, Emily Dickinson’s black cake is provided by The Suga Chef.
Conversation moderated by Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America
Co-sponsored with the Poetry Society of America
“In poem after poem, Gregerson manages to pair narrative immediacy with intricate orchestration, creating a kind of writing that hustles us along even as it reaches back through complicated echoes of earlier moments in the poem.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Price: $15.00
Time: 7:30pm
Folger Shakespeare Theatre
201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC, Washington DC, 20003-1004, US
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