Written Arts Program and Oblong Books Present

A Reading by Ann Lauterbach 

Ann Lauterbach is one of America’s most inventive poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous, and intellectually charged work. In her tenth collection, Spell, Lauterbach activates the many meanings of “spell”: her sense that the world is under a spell from which it must awaken, to spells of passing weather, to her desire to spell out life’s difficulties and wonders, and how single words (and their etymologies) might inform and enlighten our contemporary condition. In short poems, poem sequences, and a series of “Conversations with Evening,” Lauterbach calls upon all her imaginative resources to locate a new hybrid poetics of reality, with wit, urgency, and candor.

“As a poet, Lauterbach is nothing if not versatile in content and form. . . . Her register is resolutely multivalent. . . . She challenges and enchants.” —The Rumpus

Oblong Books is located at 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY, 12572. Please RSVP here.

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For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Oblong Books

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