Name: 2024 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award Reading: Jan Beatty and Andrea England!
Start: 2025-04-02T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-02T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Carlow University

2024 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award Reading: Jan Beatty and Andrea England!

April 2 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

“The Madwomen in the Attic Madwomen Reading Series presents a reading celebrating the 2024 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award

Featuring Jan Beatty, judge of the 2024 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and Andrea England, winner of the 2024 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award

Wednesday, April 2, 2025
7:00 p.m. EDT

Gailliot Center, Fifth Floor University Commons, Carlow University, 3333 Fifth Avenue
Free and open to the public. Free parking. Book table and reception after the reading.
Attend in person or RSVP for the Zoom livestream: https://bit.ly/dobler24reading

JAN BEATTY is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Dragstripping, The Body Wars, and Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Prize. Beatty worked as a waitress, in abortion clinics, and in maximum security prisons. She is professor emerita at Carlow University, where she directed the MFA and creative writing programs and the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.

ANDREA ENGLAND is the mother of daughters, dogs, plants, and other miscellaneous ideas. She is co-editor of the anthology Scientists and Poets #Resist (Brill Press, 2019) and the author of two chapbooks, Other Geographies (Creative Justice Press, 2017, winner of the Creative Justice Poetry Prize), and Inventory of a Field (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Her work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in the I-70 Review, Potomac Review, Prairie Schooner, The Comstock Review, and Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts. She teaches graduate literature and creative writing for Southern New Hampshire University’s College of Online and Continuing Education and is the writing specialist for Western Michigan University’s athletic department.

About the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
Sponsored by the Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshops at Carlow University, the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award is an annual contest open to women writers aged 40 and over who have not published a full-length book of poetry. This award is named for the late poet Patricia Dobler, who taught for many years at Carlow University and directed the Women’s Center for Creative Writing and the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops. She is the author of Collected Poems (Autumn House Press, 2005); Talking to Strangers (University of Wisconsin Press, 1986), which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry; UXB (Mill Hunk Books, 1991); and Forget Your Life (University of Nebraska Press).

For more information: madwomen@carlow.edu.

This reading is sponsored by Carlow University’s Department of Art, Communication, and English; Creative Writing Program; and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.”

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1552283272150961/

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