Lisa Taylor: Poetry Reading at UConn Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center

Lisa Taylor will read her own poetry and pay tribute to Martin Dyar. Martin Dyar is an Irish writer. A graduate of NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin, his work has received a number of honors, including the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, and the Strokestown International Poetry Award. In 2010 he was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. He has also been the recipient of two Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary Awards. His debut poetry collection Maiden Names (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press), described by Roy Foster in the Irish Times as ‘funny, astute, marvelously judged and a genuinely new voice’, was shortlisted for the 2014 Pigott Prize. In 2012 His play, Tom Loves a Lord, about the Irish poet Thomas Moore, was staged at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in 2011. Most recently, Martin was a writer in residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He is currently completing his debut novel.

Lisa Taylor has been an educator, a waitress, a medical records clerk, a professor, and a writer-in-residence. She has four collections of poetry, most recently, Necessary Silence (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, 2013). Earlier collections include Insufficient Thanks (Finishing Line Press), The Other Side of Longing (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, 2011) and Talking to Trees (Finishing Line Press). She has recently finished a book of fiction, which will be published in the spring.