FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program proudly concludes this season’s Visiting Writers Series with the poet Arielle Greenberg. Greenberg will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 14, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public.
Arielle Greenberg is the author of the poetry collections “Slice, My Kafka Century” and “Given,” and the creative nonfiction book “Locally Made Panties.” She is co-author, with Rachel Zucker, of “Home/Birth: A Poemic,” and co-editor of three anthologies, including “Gurlesque,” which will soon be out in an expanded, digital edition co-edited with Becca Klaver. Arielle’s poems and essays have been featured in “Best American Poetry,” “Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers” and “The Racial Imaginary.”
She writes a column on contemporary poetics for the American Poetry Review
A former tenured professor in poetry at Columbia College Chicago, she lives in Maine and teaches in the community and in Oregon State University-Cascades’ MFA.
