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Poetry Reading: Ruby Hansen Murray + Judy Ireland

Join Ruby Hansen Murray and Judy Ireland for a poetry reading at The Betsy-South Beach Library. November 8th, starting at 7:30 PM EST.


Ruby Hansen Murray is a columnist for the Osage News. A MacDowell fellow, she is winner of the Iowa Review and Montana Prizes, whose work has been nominated for Pushcart prizes and Best of the Net. Her work is forthcoming in Cascadia: A Field Guide (Tupelo Press). Find her in Ecotone, South Florida Poetry Review, River Mouth Review, Under the Sun, the Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Moss, The Rumpus, and Shapes of Native Nonfiction. She’s a citizen of the Osage Nation with West Indian roots living in the lower Columbia River estuary. www.rubyhansenmurray.com

Judy Ireland is the author of a poetry collection, Cement Shoes, which won the Sinclair Poetry Prize.  Her poems have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Calyx, Saranac Review, Eclipse, Cold Mountain, Coe Review, and other journals, as well as in two anthologies, the Best Indie Lit New England anthology and Voices from the Fierce Intangible World.  She is Senior Poetry Editor & Reading Series Producer for the South Florida Poetry Journal and Co-Director of  Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches. She teaches at Palm Beach State College.

Earlier Event: November 8
Meet the Artist: Ruby Hansen Murray
Later Event: December 19
Meet the Artist: Kristen Renee Miller