WordHouse Reading Series
Wednesday October 14, 6PM
Colin Harrington and Bruce Cohen
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Colin Harrington is a former high school teacher in Amherst MA, a Museum Educator at MASS MoCA, North Adams MA and an Interpretive Guide at The Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst MA - he is the Author of the poetry chapbooks: Asking Me to See: Seven Poems of Japan (MidGard'n Press), Sweetheart Deals (New Feral Press), Draughts of Ink (Buddha Baby Press) and Notes From The Ionosphere (cafe Nietzsche press) - he lives in a timber framed house in the woods of Windsor MA with his wife Deborah Balmuth, and his furry cat named Pinky.
Bruce Cohen has published six volumes of poetry: Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press), awarded the Orphic Poetry Prize, Swerve (Black Lawrence Press), Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep (Black Lawrence) and No Soap, Radio! (Black Lawrence), Imminent Disappearances, Impossible Numbers & Panoramic X-Rays (New Issues Press), awarded the Green Rose Prize, and Botrytis (Cornerstone Press). A new book, Please Don’t Touch the Art, is forthcoming from Madhat Press. His poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, etc., as well as being featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily & The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. He received a Pushcart Prize and the James Olney Award from the Southern Review. Since 2012 he has taught creative at the University of Connecticut.
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