The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College will host poets Carrie Mar ‘05 and Tommye Blount for a virtual reading and conversation. Blount was a National Book Award finalist for his debut collection, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, 2020). Mar’s debut collection, Special Education (Texas Review Press, 2020) was the winner of the 2019 X. J. Kennedy Prize. The poets and friends will discuss their paths to first books, their poetic educations (which for Mar included her first workshop at the Poetry Center), and read from their work.

Thursday, January 26, 7:30-9:00PM ET

Link to register here.