[Philadelphia, PA]

Saturnalia Books Annual Poetry Celebration with Dorothea Lasky
May 26, 2011, 6:00 pm
at The Athenaeum

Dorothea Lasky is reading with Martha Silano and Star Black at the Saturnalia Books Annual Poetry Celebration (at 6 p.m., sharp!) at the Athenaeum in Philadelphia. The reading will be followed by a wine and cheese reception. Dorothea Lasky is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Laurel Review, Crowd, 6×6, the Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Octopus, among others. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. Currently, she lives in New York City and researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.