Poets Landon Godfrey and Holly Iglesias read as part of “Writers at Home,” Feb. 21

PRESS RELEASE:

Poets Landon Godfrey and Holly Iglesias will read from their works when the Writers at Home series, hosted by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program, resumes at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., in downtown Asheville. This event is free and open to the public.

Godfrey is the author of Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown (Cider Press Review, 2011), selected by David St. John for the Cider Press Book Award, and two chapbooks, In the Stone (printed at Asheville BookWorks, 2013) and Spaceship (Somnambulist Tango Press, 2014). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Slice, Bombay Gin, The Collagist, Broadsided, Best New Poets, Verse Daily, and other places. Also an artist, she is co-editor, -publisher, and -designer of the letterpress broadside journal Croquet. She coordinates and hosts the Vandercooked Poetry Nights reading and printing series at Asheville BookWorks. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., she now lives in Black Mountain, N.C.

Iglesias, a poet and translator, is the author of Angles of Approach (White Pine Press, 2010), Souvenirs of a Shrunken World (Kore Press, 2008) and Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry (Quale Press, 2004). She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Edward Albee Foundation. She is the associate director of UNC Asheville’s Master of Liberal Arts and Sciences Program. Her current project, The Sturdy Child of Terror, is a poetry collection focused on childhood during the Cold War.

For more information about the Writers at Home series and the Great Smokies Writing Program, call the program at 828.250.2353 or visit professionaleducation.unca.edu/great-smokies-writing-program.