Apr 02 2012
Todd Boss To Give Poetry Reading

Todd Boss To Give Poetry Reading

Presented by Middle Georgia State University at Middle Georgia State University - College of Arts and Sciences Building

The poet Todd Boss will read from his work in two appearances at Macon State College on Monday, April 2. The first reading is at 11 a.m. in the Arts Complex Theater on the Macon Campus. The second reading is at 5:30 p.m. at Walker Auditorium on the Warner Robins Campus. Both readings are free and open to the public.

Boss’s debut poetry collection, Yellowrocket, was followed by Pitch in February 2012. Boss’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The London Times, The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, and Best American Poetry. He won Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Prize in 2009. His first libretto, Panic, a verse retelling of Knut Hamsun’s Pan, will premiere this year. He is a co-founder of Motionpoems, a new initiative now developing a dozen poetry films in collaboration with Scribner’s Best American Poetry 2011. He lives in Saint Paul with his wife and children.

This event is sponsored by the Macon State Artists and Lecturers Committee and the Georgia Poetry Circuit. For more info, email sharon.colley@maconstate.edu.

 

Admission Info

Both readings are free and open to the public.

 

Dates & Times

2012/04/02 - 2012/04/02

Additional time info:

The first reading is at 11 a.m. in the Arts Complex Theater on the Macon Campus.

The second reading is at 5:30 p.m. at Walker Auditorium on the Warner Robins Campus

 

Location Info

Middle Georgia State University - College of Arts and Sciences Building

100 University Pkwy, Macon, GA 31206