jubilat/Jones Poetry Reading Series
Amherst’s Jones Library and jubilat announce the final event in the jubilat/Jones spring reading series. Readings will take place on the third floor of the Jones Library, 43 Amity Street in Amherst. All readings are free and open to the public.
Tom Thompson is the author of Live Feed and The Pitch, both published by Alice James Books. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Fence, The Hat, poets.org, Volt and various other places. He and his family divide time as best they can between New York City and Coxsackie, NY. He works in the city at an advertising agency.
Miranda Field was born and raised in London, England. Her first book, Swallow, won a Katharine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prize in poetry, and she has also received a Discovery/ The Nation Award and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems and essays have been anthologized and appear in numerous journals, including Bomb, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, TriQuarterly, and Xantippe. She currently teaches at the New School's writing program in New York City, where she lives with her husband and their two sons.
Sunday at 2:00 p.m. before the reading
Poetry Swap with Dara Wier, Andrew Roberts, and guests. Bring a poem you wrote or a poem from an admired writer and share/discuss.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of Jones Library, jubilat, and the Juniper Initiative of the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers. This program is also supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council.