#  Stratis Haviaras Reading with Chen Chen and Angie Estes 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 19, 2023** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thompson Room, Barker Center and Livestream**  



 

 



 

 **Chen Chen** is the author of two books of poetry, *Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency* (BOA Editions, 2022) and *When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities* (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including *Poetry* and three editions of *The Best American Poetry*. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He lives with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.

 **Angie Estes** is the author of six books of poems, most recently *Parole* (Oberlin College Press, 2018). Her previous book, *Enchantée*, won the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and the Audre Lorde Prize for Lesbian Poets, and *Tryst* was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. *Chez Nous* appeared in 2005, and her second book, *VoiceOver*, won the 2001 *FIELD* Poetry Prize and was also awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, *The Uses of Passion* was the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize. A collection of essays devoted to Estes’s work appears in the University of Michigan Press "Under Discussion" series: *The Allure of Grammar: The Glamour of Angie Estes’s Poetry*. In October 2023, she will be the Writer-in-Residence Fellow at the James Merrill House.  
  
**For a livstream of the reading, a link will be available right here at 5:30pm EDT on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023.**



 

 



 

 

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