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A Reading with Rachel Hadas, Gardner McFall, & Safia Jama


Rachel Hadas is the author of numerous collections of poetry and essays, and is also a translator, whose verse renderings of Euripides’ s two Iphigenia plays were published in the spring of 2018 by Northwestern University Press. Some of Rachel Hadas’s other recent books are Questions in the Vestibule, poems (Northwestern, 2016); Talking to the Dead, essays (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015); and Strange Relation, memoir (Paul Dry Books, 2011). The recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she has taught for many years.

​McFall’s poems have appeared widely, in such publications as The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Sewanee Review, Southwest ReviewTin House, and River Styx, among others. In 2008 her work was featured in Poet Lore​, with an introduction by Jane Shore. McFall is a recipient of a “Discovery”/The Nation award, The Missouri Review‘s Thomas McAfee Prize for Poetry as well as fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received her M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, her Ph.D. from New York University, and has taught at Hunter College and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.  She lives and works in New York City.

A native Floridian and Navy junior, Gardner McFall is the author of two books of poems, The Pilot’s Daughter and Russian Tortoise and two children’s books, Jonathan’s Cloud and Naming the Animals.She is also the author of Amelia: The Libretto, for the opera Amelia, which premiered at Seattle Opera in May 2010 with music by Daron Hagen and story by Stephen Wadsworth. She is the editor of May Swenson’s prose miscellany, Made with Words, and wrote the introduction and notes for a Barnes & Nobles Classics edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

Safia Jama is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, born to a Somali father and an Irish-American mother in Queens, New York. Her manuscript was a semi-finalist in the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry. Mark Bibbins selected her work for a special feature in The Awl. We are pleased to bring Safia’s work, as an emerging poet, to your attention.

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Hudson Valley Writers’ Center
300 Riverside Drive
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
Handicap Accessible? Yes

Date: Friday, January 25, 2019
Times: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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Presenter Phone: 9143325953