Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Arts@Night with Poet Suzanne Frischkorn and UNH ‘Elm City Review’ Students - Feb. 17

What:

The University of New Haven (UNH) English department will host a reading and a Q&A session with poet Suzanne Frischkorn. Students from the UNH undergraduate literary publication, "The Elm City Review" also will present their work. The event is part of the UNH College of Arts and Sciences Arts@Night program which offers learning and enrichment to the community through the presentation of cultural events. The event is free and open to the public.

When:

Thursday, February 17, at 6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

Where:

Moulton Lounge, Bartels Hall, UNH Main Campus, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, CT

Details:

Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of "Girl on a Bridge" and "Lit Windowpane." She also has penned five chapbooks, most recently, "American Flamingo." Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including "Ecotone," "Indiana Review," "MARGIE," "Verse Daily" and "Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems." She has poems forthcoming or in the current issues of "Barn Owl Review," "Copper Nickel - A Journal of Literature and Art," "MiPOesias," "North American Review," "PALABRA" and the anthology "Because I Told You So: Poems on the Happiness and Crappiness of Parenthood." From 2001 to 2005 she served as an editor for "Samsära Quarterly," and is currently an assistant editor for the poetry blog "Anti-."

A 2009 Emerging Writers Fellow of The Writer's Center, her honors also include the Aldrich Poetry Award and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

For more information, contact assistant professor of English Randall Horton.

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