Join us on Wednesday, August 14th at the Castle for a Reading by Michael Dumanis (CRF 2009) & Monica Ferrell (CRF 2011). We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM.
Michael Dumanis (CRF 2009)
Writing, USA
Michael Dumanis is the author of two books of poems, Creature (Four Way Books, 2023), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Vermont Book Award; and My Soviet Union, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and the coeditor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, and Poetry magazine, and received the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, he lives in Vermont, teaches at Bennington College, and serves as editor of Bennington Review.
Monica Ferrell (CRF 2011)
Writing, USA
Monica Ferrell is the author of one novel and three books of poems, most recently The Future, forthcoming in March 2026, and You Darling Thing (Four Way Books, 2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and the Believer Book Award in Poetry and a New York Times New & Noteworthy selection. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Born in New Delhi, India, she lives in Vermont and is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College.
Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
6:00 PM Welcome cocktail
6:15 PM Presentations
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