#  Morris Gray Poetry Reading Featuring Alice Oswald & Juan Felipe Herrera 

 



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 **April 6, 2017** 

 05:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

 



 

 Poet Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Her first collection of poetry, *The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile* (1996), received a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Oswald often works in book-length projects and is known for her interests in gardening, ecology, and music. Her second book, *Dart* (2002), was the outcome of years of primary and secondary research into the history, environment, and community along the River Dart in Devon, England. Oswald’s other collections of poetry include *Woods, etc.* (2005), winner of a Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; *Weeds and Wild Flowers* (2009), illustrated by Jessica Greenman; *A Sleepwalk on the Severn* (2009); and *Memorial* (2011), a reworking of Homer’s *Iliad* that has received high critical praise for its innovative approach and stunning imagery, which won the 2013 Warwick Prize for writing. Oswald was the first poet to win the prize*.* Her latest book is *Falling Awake* (2016).

 Juan Felipe Herrera is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2016) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera’s many collections of poetry include *Notes on the Assemblage;* *Senegal Taxi*; *Half of the World in Light*: *New and Selected Poems*, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and *187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007*. He is also the author of *Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse*, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include: *SkateFate, Calling The Doves*, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; *Upside Down Boy*, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City; and *Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box*. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.

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