Join us June 24!

Join us June 24!

Join us at Newcomb Ballroom on U.Va.’s campus for readings by Joshua Poteat and Bronwen Dickey on Friday, June 24 at 7:00pm. Refreshments will be available at intermission.

Joshua Poteat’s most recent book, The Regret Histories (HarperCollins, 2015), won the 2014 National Poetry Series prize. He is also the author of Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World (VQR/University of Georgia Press, 2009) and Ornithologies (Anhinga Press Prize, 2006) as well as three chapbooks: The Scenery of Farewell and Hello Again (Diode Editions, 2014), For the Animal (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2013), and Meditations (Poetry Society of America, 2004).

Bronwen Dickey is a contributing editor at The Oxford American and the author of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, NewsweekOutside, Popular Mechanics, Best American Travel Writing 2009SlateGarden & GunThe San Francisco ChronicleSouthern Living, World Hum, Sport Diver, and The Independent Weekly, among other publications. In 2009 she received a first-place Lowell Thomas Award in travel journalism and a residency grant from the MacDowell Colony. She lives in North Carolina.