Free Night

May 15, 2008 @ 5:00 PM
Poetry Reading by Joseph Harrison

JCSM is pleased to welcome native son, Joseph Harrison, for a reading from his recently published second book of poetry, Identity Theft (Waywiser, 2008). Harrison, who grew up in Auburn, studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His book Someone Else's Name (Waywiser, 2003) was named as one of five poetry books of the year by the Washington Post and was a finalist for the Poets' Prize. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1998 (ed. John Hollander), 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (ed. Billy Collins), The Library of America's Anthology of American Religious Poems (ed. Harold Bloom), and many journals. In 2005 he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Baltimore.

6:00 PM Winetasting