Nicole Cooley reads Tuesday the 13th!
This upcoming Tuesday the 13th, Nicole Cooley will read from her newly published collection of poems Breach at the Columns Hotel. Cooley is a New Orleans native who received her B.A. from Brown University, her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her PhD from Emory University and is the daughter of New Orleans poet Peter Cooley. Her first book of poetry, Resurrection, won the Walt Whitman Award and her book The Afflicted Girls was chosen as one of the year’s best poetry books by Library Journal. She has also published a novel entitled Judy Garland, Ginger Love and will publish a fourth book of poetry this November entitled Milk Dress. She has received a Discovery/The Nation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and even the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in magazines such as The Nation and Poetry. She has published fiction in many journals including The Paris Review and The Southwest Review. She is a member of the Academy of American Poets and has published scholarly work on women’s writing and experimental poetics.
Cooley is visiting 1718 from New York, where she is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College—City University of New York where she directs the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Please arrive early to enjoy the Columns generous happy hour and grab a seat for 7pm. Student readers to follow.
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