Poetry and Memoir Reading with Rose McLarney and William Giraldi

2016 Frost Place Poet in Residence Rose McLarney and novelist and memoirist William Giraldi will read from their work in the Wren Room, Sanborn House.

July 27, 2016
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Wren Room, Sanborn House
Sponsored by
English Department
Audience
Public
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Sandra Hobbs
603-646-2316

The public is invited to a reading by Rose McLarney, the 2016 Frost Place Dartmouth Poet in Residence, and William Giraldi, author of the new memoir, The Hero's Body.

Rose McLarney has published two collections of poems, Its Day Being Gone (Penguin Books, 2014) and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way Books, 2012). Its Day Being Gone is the 2013 National Poetry Series winner. Her work has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, Orion, Slate, New England Review, Missouri Review, and dozens of other journals. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University and Poetry Editor of The Southern Humanities Review.

About Its Day Being Gone: "A beautiful book, and a haunting one too. McLarney makes things matter. Her poems make you feel very deeply connected — under the skin, in the bone — and therefore more acutely alive." -Robert Wrigley

William Giraldi is the author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark, and the memoir The Hero's Body. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and fiction editor for the journal AGNI at Boston University. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons.

"The Hero's Body provides profound insight into the world of men, their obsessions, their compulsions, their extreme vulnerabilities. This is a beautiful book about bodies that go beyond beauty and into the macabre. Giraldi writes prose that singes as it sings, that never falters in its riveting narrative about strength and speed and grief." -Lauren Slater

Location
Wren Room, Sanborn House
Sponsored by
English Department
Audience
Public
More information
Sandra Hobbs
603-646-2316