WordHouse Reading Series
Saturday June 28, 2pm
Sarah Wetzel and Benjamin Grossberg
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Benjamin S. Grossberg’s books of poetry include My Husband Would (University of Tampa Press, 2020), winner of a Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa Press, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. A new chapbook, As Are Right Fit, was just published by Harbor Editions (2024). He also wrote the novel, The Spring before Obergefell (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), which was selected by Percival Everett for the AWP Award Series James Alan McPherson Prize. Ben is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.
Sarah Wetzel is the author of the chapbook, Elegies of Herons, forthcoming from Black Sunflowers Poetry Press. She is also the author of several poetry collections most recently The Davids Inside David, from Terrapin Books, as well as River Electric with Light, which won the AROHO Poetry Publication Prize and was published by Red Hen Press, and Bathsheba Transatlantic, which won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was published by Anhinga Press. When not shuttling between her three geographic loves—Rome, Italy, New York City, and Newtown, CT—Sarah is Publisher and Editor at Saturnalia Books and a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature in the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. www.sarahwetzel.com.
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