Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Jan Freeman

Here’s how it works:

We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns via Zoom on October 4, 2-4 p.m.
Here’s how it works: To attend, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.

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Hosted by Jane Roy Brown

Jan Freeman is a poet and the former director of Paris Press (1995–2018), which is now an imprint of Wesleyan University Press. She is the recipient of a 2020–2021 Associateship at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center. Her recent book of poems, Blue Structure (Calypso Editions) was nominated for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and championed by Ilya Kaminsky. She is the author of Simon Says, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hyena, recipient of the Cleveland State Poetry Center poetry prize; and the chapbook Autumn Sequence. She has received fellowships from Moulin a Nef, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and other artist residencies. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Women’s Review of Books, The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Plume, and most recently POETRY Magazine and Salamander. Her poems are forthcoming in the anthology Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest (Winter 2021). She is at work on a new collection of poems, Mobius.