Our featured poet for October is Lisa C. Taylor reading from her newest book, Interrogation of Morning. Lisa is the author of three poetry collections, including Interrogation of Morning (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press 2022). She also has two short story collections, Impossibly Small Spaces (2018), and Growing a New Tail (2015). One of her short stories received the Hugo House New Fiction Award in 2015. Her collaborative collection with Irish poet and writer Geraldine Mills, The Other Side of Longing (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, 2011) led to both of them being named Elizabeth Shanley Gerson Readers of Irish Literature at University of Connecticut. Lisa’s poetry has been published in numerous journals, literary magazines and national and international anthologies. Both her poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Lisa holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program. She was awarded a Colorado Creative Industries/National Endowment for the Arts grant in 2022 to create Writing for Resilience, a youth writing and art program. Lisa is currently working on a novel. Her website is Lisa C. Taylor (lisactaylor.com)

With this reading we go back on Zoom for the winter months. For the Zoom link email EllieOLeary@gmail.com