Poet Jessica Greenbaum to Read Excerpts at Quinnipiac University

HAMDEN, CT – Jessica Greenbaum, an award-winning poet from New York, will read excerpts from her poetry at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, in the Kresge Auditorium, Echlin 101, at Quinnipiac University, 275 Mount Carmel Ave. This reading is free and open to the public.

Greenbaum is the author of three books, including her latest “Spilled and Gone,” which American poet Grace Schulman described as being “enlivened by keen observation, a fresh mind, and a vivid sense of place that makes me want to be there, with her, in her world.”

Her first book, “Inventing Difficulty,” won the Gerald Cable Prize and was praised by American literary critic George Steiner as a “first book by a poet very much to be listened to.” Her second book, “The Two Yvonnes,” was chosen for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and recognized by Library Journal as one of the Best Books of Poetry in 2012. Greenbaum also has received multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Society of America.

Greenbaum teaches at Barnard College, her alma mater, and for Footsteps, a service agency for people who have left ultra-Orthodoxy.

This event is part of the Yawp! Series: An Open Dialogue on Creativity and the Arts, sponsored by the creative writing program at Quinnipiac.