Posted on August 19, 2024
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by UNCG alum Elly Bookman on Thursday, October 17th at 6PM in the Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building Room 1215, 1111 Spring Garden Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.
ELLY BOOKMAN’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in downtown Atlanta, and then earned an undergraduate degree from Colby College and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Bookman worked as a lecturer at UNCG before beginning her career as a middle-grade educator. In 2016, she returned to her hometown where she currently teaches writing, literature, and humanities in the junior high at The Paideia School.
While teaching full-time, Bookman consistently writes and publishes her work in some of the most widely-read poetry markets in the country. Her work is guided by an honest, recognizable voice as it engages with questions of American identity. Her poems make the political personal by exploring the underlying emotional currents in everyday scenes. Her first collection, Love Sick Century, will be published by 42 Miles Press in 2024.
For directions and more information about parking: https://idcapps.uncg.edu/access/access.html?id=Moore Humanities (MHRA).
