Join us for a virtual reading with Emari DiGiorgio, Judith Lindbergh and Paul Lisicky, live streamed using Zoom. You don’t need to create a Zoom account in order to “attend,” but you do need access to a computer, smart phone or other telephone.
You can tune in from your computer or smart phone by clicking this link: https://stockton.zoom.us/s/949675360. You can view in your browser on your computer or will need to download an app to your phone.
You can also call in to listen from a landline or cell phone. Dial 929-436-2866 and enter meeting ID: 949 675 360
If you can’t join us live, we’ll post a recording of the reading to our YouTube within the next week.
This is a free event, but RSVP on Facebook is encouraged.
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Emari DiGiorgio is the author of Girl Torpedo (Agape, 2018), the winner of the 2017 Numinous Orison, Luminous Origin Literary Award and The Things a Body Might Become (Five Oaks Press, 2017). She’s the recipient of the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize and a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She’s received residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Sundress Academy of the Arts and Rivendell Writers’ Colony. She teaches at Stockton University, is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet and hosts World Above, a monthly reading series in Atlantic City, NJ. Read and listen to her poetry on her website, and check out her feature on State of the Arts.
Judith Lindbergh’s debut novel, The Thrall’s Tale, about three women in the first Viking Age settlement in Greenland, was a Booksense (IndieBound) Pick, a Borders Original Voices Selection and praised by Pulitzer Prize winners Geraldine Brooks and Robert Olen Butler. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Archaeology Magazine, Edible Jersey, Scandinavian Review, The World & I, Other Voices, and, most recently, in UP HERE: The North at the Center of the World published by University of Washington Press. She also contributed to the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition Vikings: The Norse Atlantic Saga and was an expert commentator on the History Channel’s documentary series MANKIND: The Story of All of Us. Judith is the Founder/Director of The Writer’s Circle, a community-based creative writing organization providing workshops and events in several suburban New Jersey locations. She regularly teaches creative writing to students from ages 8-80. To read more of her work, visit judithlindbergh.com or her blog.
Paul Lisicky is the author of five books including The Narrow Door, Unbuilt Projects and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The New York Times, Tin House and elsewhere. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he has served on the Writing Committee since 2000. He has taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden. His sixth book, Later, was recently published by Graywolf Press. He lives in Brooklyn. Visit his website: paullisicky.net.
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