Zoom Poetry Reading

• Thursday, August 20, 2020
• 6:30 PM  8:00 PM

FEATURING CATHRYN COFELL & ABBY FRUCHT

Poetry at Large is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lion's Mouth Bookstore Reading with Cathryn Cofell & Abby Frucht
Time: Aug 20, 2020 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Cathryn Cofell is the author of two full-length poetry collections including Stick Figure with Skirt, winner of the 2019 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She’s also published six chapbooks and produced a poetry/music CD called Lip. She’s been published in over 300 other places and earned 50+ awards for her poetry and essays, including the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award. She is a passionate advocate for the arts, helping to launch the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poetry Chapbook Prize and the Poetry Unlocked reading series, among others. www.cathryncofell.com  

Abby Frucht is the author of two short story collections: Fruit of the Month, for which she received the Iowa Short Fiction Prize in 1987, and The Bell at the End of a Rope (Narrative Library, 2012). She has also written six novels: Snap; Licorice; Are You Mine?; Life before Death; Polly’s Ghost; and in collaboration with her friend and colleague, Laurie Alberts, A Well-Made Bed (Red Hen Press, 2016). Abby has served as mentor and advisor for more than twenty five years at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Her first book of poetry, Maids, tells the story of Abby's efforts to speak to and about the women employed by her parents as "maids" when she and her sisters were girls on Long Island in the 1960's,'70s, and 80's. Maids, which was a finalist and/or semi finalist for the Slope Editions Book Prize, the Marie Alexander Poetry Book Prize, The Robert C.Jones Short Prose book prize, the 42 Miles Poetry book prize, and the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay book prize, was published on early in 2020 at Matter Press.