Tuesday March 18, 2025 – 5:00pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link:

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Nathalie Anderson, author of Rough, Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  She collaborated with Susan Hagen and Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America.  Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume and authored libretti for five operas.  She has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught as Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Literature, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.

Joseph Lennon is Emily C. Riley Director of the Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University, where he also is Associate Dean, Professor of English, and Co-Director of Villanova’s Strategic Initiative for Climate, Justice and Sustainability.  His forthcoming book, Marion Wallace-Dunlop and the Origins of the Hunger Strike will be published in 2026.  He writes poetry, essays, and scholarship on Irish and transnational literature and culture, focusing on histories of the hunger strike in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Russia, and India.  He has published poetry in New Hibernia Review, Poetry Ireland, Natural Bridge, Denver Quarterly, and Salmon Poetry published his Fell Hunger in 2011; he is editing a forthcoming issue of the American Journal of Irish Studies on “Sustainability in Irish Culture.”

Stephen Sexton’s first book, If All the World and Love Were Young was the winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2019 and the Shine / Strong Award for Best First Collection. He was awarded the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2020. He was the winner of the National Poetry Competition in 2016 and the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award in 2018. Cheryl’s Destinies was published in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Wake Forest University Press reissued both collections in North America in 2024.

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