The Queens College MFA in Creative Writing and Translation is thrilled to announce our first MFA event of the spring semester, a reading in collaboration with The Poetry Society of America, The New Salon in Queens. Award winning poet Matthea Harvey will read from her work, followed by a Q&A with MFA alum Peter Vanderberg.

Matthea Harvey is the author of five books of poetry: If the Tabloids are True What Are You?, Of Lamb (an illustrated erasure with images by Amy Jean Porter), Modern Life (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book), Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. She has also published two children’s books, Cecil the Pet Glacier, illustrated by Giselle Potter, and The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.

The reading will be held next wednesday March 4, 6:30pm, in the Godwin-Ternbach Art Museum in Klapper. A reception and book signing will follow the reading. It is free and open to the public.

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