Poets featured in finale of jubilat/Jones Reading Series

The final event in the jubilat/Jones Reading Series will feature poets Ben Kopel, Laurie Saurborn Young and Amanda Nadelberg on Sunday, April 21 at 3 p.m. in the Woodbury Room at the Jones Library, 43 Amity St.

 

The reading will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the poets.  

 

Kopel is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers. He is the author of a chapbook, “Because We Must,” and a full-length collection titled “Victory,” which was published in 2012.

 

Young is a poet, writer and photographer. She is the author of “Carnavoria,” a book of poems. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and studied in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

 

Nadelberg is the author of “Isa the Truck Named Isadore,” winner of the 2005 Slope Editions Book Prize, and a chapbook, “Building Castles in Spain, Getting Married.” A recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry and the Iowa Arts Council, she is a graduate of Carleton College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship. “Bright Brave Phenomena” is her second book of poems.