Author Amelia Martens Kicks Off UC Clermont Poetry Series Oct. 4
The UC Clermont 2017-18 Poetry Series will welcome its first of four authors to the colleges Batavia campus during the academic year on Oct. 4.
Amelia Martens is author of The Spoons in the Grass are There to Dig a Moat, selected by Sarabande Books for the 2014 Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. Martenss chapbooks include Purgatory (Black Lawrence Press, 2012), Clatter (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013) and A Series of Faults (Finishing Line Press, 2014).
Her work has received support from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council. Together with her husband, Martens launched the Rivertown Reading Series, Exit 7: A Journal of Literature and Art.
The UC Clermont Poetry Series has been bringing local and national poets to the college for more than ten years, to read from their work, talk with audiences, and conduct masterclasses, said Phoebe Reeves, associate professor of English. For the students, its a chance to have a conversation with someone whos putting all our classroom theories into practice. Its an inspiring experience for all of us.
Martens will be on hand on Oct. 4 for a Conversation with the Poet at 10:10 a.m. followed by a Reading and Book Signing at 11:15 a.m. in the UC Clermont Park National Bank Art Gallery.
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