Avid Bookshop
493 Prince Ave.
Athens, GA 30601
United States
Free and open to the public.
Avid Bookshop presents Kathy Fagan and Peter Mishler for the April installment of the Avid Poetry Series. This event is free and open to the public. We encourage you to purchase copies of their books and get them signed by the authors!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Kathy Fagan’s fifth book is Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017), a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts and William Carlos Williams Poetry Prizes. Recent work appears in The New York Times, The Nation, Poetry and Tin House. She has received fellowships from the NEA and Ohio Arts Council. Fagan directs the MFA Program at Ohio State, where she also serves as Series Co-editor for the OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Poetry Prize.
Peter Mishler is the author of the poetry collection Fludde published by Sarabande Books, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. He interviews poets for the website Lit Hub.
Kathy Fagan
Kathy Fagan is the author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, as well as four previous collections including The Charm, the National Poetry Series-winning The Raft, and Vassar Miller Prize-winner MOVING & ST RAGE. A former NEA fellow, she is currently the Director of Creative Writing and the MFA program at Ohio State University, and Poetry Editor for OSU Press.
The language of trees is the language of love and loss: in this collection, black walnuts fall where no one can eat or smell them, and cottonwood sends out feverish signals of pollen. And like the bark of the sycamore, which sheds to allow the tree’s expansion, these poems document both pain and tenuous rebirth.