Friday, March 28, 7 p.m. • a reading by poets
MONICA YOUN & SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY
Monica Youn’s first book of poems, Barter, was published by Graywolf Press in 2003;
her poetry has also appeared in such journals as Fence and AGNI. She lives in New York,
where she is a media and intellectual property lawyer. Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author
and editor of ten books, including the novella The Blue City (2008 Marick Press)
and Broken Hallelujahs (2007 BOA Editions). His awards include two Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry.

Friday, April 4, 7 p.m. • a reading by TERRY BLACKHAWK
Terry Blackhawk’s poetry collections include Trio: Voices from the Myths (Ridgeway Press);
Body & Field, (MSU Press); Escape Artist (BkMk Press), winner of the 2002 John Ciardi
Prize; and a Greatest Hits chapbook from Pudding House Press. Her poems have appeared
in journals such as Michigan Quarterly Review, Rattle, Borderlands, Nimrod and many others.
In 1995 she founded InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a writers-in-schools organization which
has grown to serve over 2,500 Detroit students of all ages in over 100 classrooms annually.
She lives in Detroit and was named the 2007 “Book Woman of the Year” by the Detroit chapter
of the WNBA (Women’s National Book Association).

Friday, April 11, 7 p.m. • a reading by poet MARTHA COLLINS
Martha Collins is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006),
which focuses on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old. Blue Front
won an Anisfield-Wolf Award and an Ohioana Award, and was chosen as one of “25 Books
to Remember from 2006” by the New York Public Library. Collins has published four earlier
collections of poems, including Some Things Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow, 1998).
Other awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ingram
Merrill Foundation, as well as three Pushcart Prizes and a Lannan Foundation residency.

Friday, April 18, 7 p.m. • a reading by poets
KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN & LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR
Kathleen Flenniken’s first poetry collection, Famous (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)
won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American
Library Association in 2007. Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog
and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief, winner of the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry.
Ausable Press published her latest book, A New Hunger, in 2007. She teaches at Sarah
Lawrence College and at the MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College.