Join us for a night of poetry featuring visiting writer M. Soledad Caballero + local writer Ellene Glenn Moore.
The event will be live and streamed.
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M. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English and co-chair of the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Allegheny College. Her scholarship focuses on British Romanticism, travel writing, WGSS, and interdisciplinarity. She is a Macondo fellow, a CantoMundo fellow, has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, has been a finalist for the Missouri Review's Jeffry E. Smith poetry prize, a finalist for the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, was winner of the 2019 Joy Harjo poetry contest sponsored by Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, and winner of SWWIM Every Day’s SWWIM-For-the-Fun-of-It contest. Her poems have appeared in the Missouri Review, the Iron Horse Literary Review, the Crab Orchard Review, and other venues. Her first collection, I Was a Bell, won the 2019 Benjamin Saltman poetry prize and will be published by Red Hen Press in 2021. She is an avid TV watcher and cheese eater, and is a terrible birder. She splits her time between Pittsburgh, PA and Meadville, PA.
Ellene Glenn Moore is an American writer living in Zürich. Her book How Blood Works won the 2020 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and was published by Kent State University Press earlier this fall. Ellene earned her MFA in Creative Writing from FIU, where she was a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow in Poetry. Her poetry, lyric non-fiction, and critical work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, West Branch, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Find her online at elleneglennmoore.net.