Poets Catherine Barnett and Myronn Hardy will read from their work Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m., at Blue Raven Gallery, 374 Main Street, Rockland, ME 04841. The event is hosted by poet Bruce Willard.

"There is nothing like a poem to inspire, heal, and provoke," said Blue Raven. "As Major Jackson says, 'a poem advances our humanity in language.'”

Blue Raven Gallery Poetry Reading Series brings some of the most prominent and distinguished voices in poetry to the central Maine coast, according to the gallery.

Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (2024 Graywolf Press); Human Hours (2018 Believer Book Award, New York Times "Best Poetry of 2018" selection); The Game of Boxes (James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets); and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award).

A Guggenheim fellow and Whiting Award recipient, she was recently honored with a 2022 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The NY Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, and elsewhere.

She has been a visiting professor in the MFA Program at Hunter College, Barnard College, and Princeton University. She currently teaches in NYU's MFA Program and works as an independent editor. 

Myronn Hardy is the author of four volumes of poetry, Approaching the Center, winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, The Headless Saints, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Catastrophic Bliss, winner of the Griot-Stadler Prize for Poetry, and most recently, Kingdom. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, FIELD, Versal (Amsterdam), and elsewhere. His short stories have garnered two Pushcart Prize nominations. Hardy has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Annenberg Foundation, Djerassi, Cave Canem, Instituto Sacatar, and Fundación Valparaiso. He is currently working on his first novel.  He divides his time between New York City and Morocco.

For questions or additional information, contact Poetry@blueravengallery.com 

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