Poetry off the Shelf: Brenda Shaughnessy
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
An ASL interpreter will be present
Free admission, register in advance here
At 30 minutes before event start, guests with Eventbrite tickets will have priority entry to the performance space on a first-come, first-served basis. At 15 minutes prior to event start, the performance space is open to all guests. Seating capacity is limited. Eventbrite reservations do not guarantee entry or reserved seating.
Join us for a reading with poet Brenda Shaughnessy, author of five critically acclaimed volumes of poetry: The Octopus Museum, So Much Synth, Our Andromeda, Interior with Sudden Joy, and Human Dark with Sugar, a winner of the James Laughlin Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review.