Virtual Poetry Reading: Celia Bland, Jonathan Blunk, Cindy Savett

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Celia Bland co-edited Jane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention with Martha Collins. Her third collection of poetry, Cherokee Road Kill, received the 2015 Raynes Prize, Madonna Comix, an image and poetry collaboration she created with artist Dianne Kornberg, was exhibited at New York City’s Lesley Heller Gallery. In addition to her books of poetry, she is the author of young adult biographies of the Native American leaders Pontiac, Osceola, and Peter MacDonald. She works at Bard College.

Jonathan Blunk is a poet, essayist, and radio producer. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published his authorized biography, James Wright: A Life in Poetry, in 2017, a book The New York Times praised as “fine-grained literary biography at its finest.” Blunk also assisted with editing A Wild Perfection, the selected letters of James Wright (FSG 2005). His most recent essays and reviews have appeared in The Georgia Review, and poems in FIELD magazine.

Cindy Savett is the author of Child in the Road (Parlor Press), The Breath (BlazeVOX [books]), and the chapbooks The Story of my Eyes, Battle for the Metal Kiss, Rachel: In the Temporary Mist of Prayer, and Overtures of Survival (forthcoming). Her work is also found in the anthology Challenges for the Delusional. The sudden death of her youngest daughter generated a fierce reckoning in her poems – much of her writing since has focused on grief. She lives with her family on the outskirts of Philadelphia where she leads poetry workshops for psychiatric inpatients at several area hospitals.