Poet: Andrea Read
Date: 23 December 2019, Monday
Time: 5 p.m.
Place: Bilkent Library Art Gallery
You are cordially invited to a reading by the poet Andrea Read at the Bilkent Library Art Gallery at 5pm on Monday 23 December. Andrea’s poems
have appeared most recently in Barrow Street, Black Rabbit Quarterly, Copper Nickel, FIELD, Goliad, Lily Poetry Review, Plume, The Missouri
Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she is the recipient of a National Resource Fellowship, a
Tinker Foundation Grant, and an Artist’s Fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in
Romance Languages and Literatures and an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Andrea has taught creative writing and literature at
numerous universities and colleges and currently facilitates the Poetry Lab at the Jeanne Jugan Residence in Somerville. She divides her time
between Somerville, Massachusetts and Brooks, Maine. You can learn more about Andrea and her work at andreaballouread.com.
Andrea will also be joined by some members of the Bilkent community who will read and discuss their own work.