Award-Winning Poet and Bard MFA Faculty Member Anna Moschovakis to Give Reading at Bard College, Thursday, October 8

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—On Thursday, October 8, poet Anna Moschovakis, a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse and winner of the Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award, will give a reading at Bard College. Author of I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, and the forthcoming They and We Will Get into Trouble for This, Moschovakis will be introduced by Ann Lauterbach, David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature. This event, presented by the John Ashbery Poetry Series, takes place in Bard Hall at 6:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books will be available for sale and signing from Oblong Books & Music.

Anna Moschovakis’s I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection of the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poetry Series. Raised in Los Angeles, Moschovakis studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, before turning to writing, and has worked a variety of jobs in restaurants, on film sets, at magazines, and in institutions of higher education. Currently she is a freelance editor, an active member of the nonprofit publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and a visiting professor in the writing program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is a faculty member in Bard's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts..

For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].

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This event was last updated on 10-02-2015

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