The Visiting Writers Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites you to a poetry reading by Gillian Conoley on Thursday, November 13, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
*Gillian Conoley* is a graduate of the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers. Her collections include Profane Halo (Wave Books, 2005); Lovers in the Used World (Carnegie Mellon,2001); Beckon (Carnegie Mellon, 1996); Tall Stranger (Carnegie Mellon, 1991), finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award; and Some Gangster Pain (Carnegie Mellon, 1987). A recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, several Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and a Fund for Poetry Award, she is professor and Poet-in Residence at Sonoma State University, where she is the founder and editor of Volt. Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in W.W. Norton's American Hybrid, Scribner's Best American Poetry, Fence's Best of Fence, Counterpath's Lyric
Postmodernisms, and the Italian anthology, Nuova Poesia Americana, published by Oscar Mondadori. Her latest book, Plot Genie, is
forthcoming from Omnidawn in Fall 2009.
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