Poet Mary Ruefle and novelist Kathryn Davis will read their work at the Old West Church at 3 O'Clock this Sunday, September 19, for Wrought & Written: WORDS OUT LOUD, a reading series of Vermont writers held in conjunction with Art at the Kent's 20/20 Hindsight exhibit.
A bit about each author:
Mary Ruefle has published many books, including Dunce; My Private Property; Trances of the Blast; Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism); and Selected Poems (winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America), as well as a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed! An erasure artist, Ruefle's treatments of 19th-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow. The recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Whiting Award, she was appointed Vermont Poet Laureate in 2019. She lives in Bennington.
Kathryn Davis, formerly of North Calais, is the author of eight novels, the most recent of which are The Silk Road and Duplex. Her newest book, a memoir, Aurelia, Aurélia, is forthcoming this Spring. She has received the Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, both the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award and the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, she won the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She is the senior fiction writer on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis.
NOTE:
Masks required inside the Old West Church.
No tickets needed.
Event is free but: Donations at the door to help ensure these treasured Calais spaces and events continue to thrive will be smiled upon.
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