Reading: Robert Farnsworth and Craig Morgan Teicher

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Robert Farnsworth is the author of the poetry collection Rumored Islands (Harbor Mountain Press, 2010) and two previous collections from Wesleyan University Press, Three Or Four Hills And A Cloud (1982), and Honest Water (1989). He is the former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa society’s literary quarterly The American Scholar, and taught at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, from 1990 to 2018.

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of one collection of critical essays, We Begin in Gladness (Graywolf, 2018); and three books of poems: The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), which won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012); and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, (CLP, 2007), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). Teicher edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016) and serves as a poetry editor for The Literary Review. He writes about books for many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, the LA Times, and NPR.