Bard College at Simon's Rock: the Early College

Poetry & Fiction Series: Jenny Xie

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Fisher Science Center - Clark Auditorium


Join us for a reading by award-winning poet Jenny Xie.

Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level, a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Her chapbook, Nowhere to Arrive received the Drinking Gourd Prize. She has been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Kundiman, and New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2020, she was awarded the Vilcek Prize in Creative Promise. She teaches at Bard College.

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