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Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Jenny Xie

Monday, March 6, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
On Monday, March 6 at 5pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), poet and Bard faculty member Jenny Xie will read from her work. Introduced by Mary Caponegro, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the student body. 

​Jenny Xie was born in Anhui province, China. She is the author of Eye Level, a finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and The Rupture Tense, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, New Republic, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has taught at Princeton and NYU, and is currently on faculty at Bard College. Jenny lives in New York City.

Mary Caponegro is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing at Bard. She is the author of the short story collections The Star Café, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down, as well as selected works in translation. Professor Caponegro is a contributor to The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Tin House, Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Sulfur, Gargoyle, and Iowa Review, and a contributing editor for Conjunctions. 

Read more about Jenny's work here.
 

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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