Two award-winning writers to present in USI Griffin Center

The spring 2019 Southern Indiana Reading Series continues with readings and discussions with poets Meg Day and Marty McConnell on Wednesday, March 20. The readings will begin at 7 p.m. at the University of Southern Indiana Griffin Center, followed by a reception. This event is free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase and for signing.

Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street, 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and The Publishing Triangle's 2015 Audre Lorde Award, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University, a 2015 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, and Jacar Press' Julie Suk Award. Day is the author of two chapbooks: When All You Have Is a Hammer (winner of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest), and We Can't Read This (winner of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). Day's poems appear or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, cream city review, Drunken Boat,and Vinyl, among other journals, and in recent anthologies, including Best New Poets of 2013, Wingbeats II: Exercises & Practice in Poetry, We Will Be Shelter: Poems for Survival edited by Andrea Gibson and Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics.

Marty McConnell is the author of wine for a shotgun (EM Press, 2013); when they say you can't go home again, what they mean is you were never there, winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize (SIR Press, 2018) and Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop (YesYes Books, 2018). She is the co-creator of underbelly, an online magazine focused on the art and magic of poetry revision. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast and Indiana Review. McConnell lives in Chicago with her wife, visual artist Lindsey Dorr-Niro.

The Southern Indiana Reading Series is made possible by the College of Liberal Arts, the USI Foundation, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Vanderburgh Community Foundation Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. In addition to the reading event, McConnell and Day will also be running workshops that focus on poetry and performance with USI Communications, English and Gender Studies students.

For more information visit USI.edu/reading-series or contact Dr. Casey Pycior, assistant professor of English, at 812-228-5037 or cpycior@usi.edu or Dr. Stephanie Young, associate professor of Communication Studies, at 812-464-1737 or slyoung@usi.edu.