Bernadette Mayer will read her poetry, Wednesday, February 27 at 6 pm in the Frank Conroy Reading Room.

Bernadette Mayer is the author of over twenty-seven collections of poetry and prose, most recently Works and Days (2016), Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer (2015) and The Helens of Troy (2013), as well as countless chapbooks and artist-books. She is widely known for her Sonnets, her long-form works Memory, Studying Hunger, and Midwinter Day, as well as her translations of Catullus, many of which are collected in The Formal Field of Kissing. She is the recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, the NEA, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. From 1980-1984 she served as director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. She edited United Artists Books, one of the longest running independent publishers of poetry in the US and co-edited with Vito Acconci the journal 0 to 9. She has taught at the New School for Social Research, Naropa University, and at University of Pennsylvania as a Kelly Writers House Fellow. She continues to have a formative impact on the contemporary avant-garde.

Bernadette Mayer has also written an original work for the Poets' Theatre Festival held on March 1-2. (For further information on Poets' Theatre events, please see the event listing )