Free Poetry Reading in Caldwell: Angela O'Donnell

As part of National Poetry Month, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, a writer and a professor at Fordham University, will read selections from her work from noon to 12:50 p.m., on Wednesday, April 22, at the reference room of Jennings Library at Caldwell University.

The event, titled “Saints, Sinners, Mothers & Lovers: Readings from Poetry & Memoir,” will be free and open to the public.

O’Donnell will read from her poetry books, “Saint Sinatra,” “Waking My Mother,” and “Lovers’ Almanac,” as well as from her memoir, “Mortal Blessings.”

According to a release, O’Donnell teaches English and creative writing at Fordham and serves as associate director of Fordham’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. She is also a regular columnist for America magazine. O’Donnell has published four collections of poems and two chapbooks. She has also written The Province of Joy, a book of hours based on the prayer life of Flannery O’Connor, and Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith, a brief biography and introduction to O’Connor’s work forthcoming from the Liturgical Press.

O’Donnell has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Web Award, and the Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Imaginative Writing.

Pictured above: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

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