THE AWARD WINNING poet, Barbara Rockman, along with poets Siobhan Potter and Hannah Ward, will read at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
The reading takes place on Thursday, August 26 from 6.30pm to 8pm and the MC will be Susan Millar DuMars.
Barbara Rockman is author of Sting and Nest, winner of the 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Her 2019 poetry collection, to cleave, received the National Press Women Prize and was a finalist for the International Book Award and the New Mexico Book Award.
She has also won the Baskerville Poetry Prize, the New Mexico Discovery Award, and The MacGuffin Prize. Her Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poems have appeared in terrain.org,Thrush, Nimrod, and Verse Daily.
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Siobhan Potter works as a verbal artist and poet. She is the curator of ‘not the time to be silent’, an Arts response to social distancing and is a current recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Literature project award.
Hannah Ward is from Roscommon and is currently a student in NUIG studying creative writing. Her poetry has been published in the Galway Advertiser’s Vox Galvia creative writing page.
To join the reading go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549. The meeting ID is 738 901 3549. There will be an open-mic after the featured readers. Those interested in taking part should text Kevin Higgins on 087 - 6431748 or email [email protected] between 6pm and 6.30pm on the evening of the reading.
