Thursday, April 30, 2009

Hettie Jones reads her poetry and chats with Alice Quinn

Monday, May 4, 6:30pm, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall
Queens College Campus
HETTIE JONES is the author of various books, including her first collection of poems, Drive (Hanging Loose Press, 1997), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is also the author of How I Became Hettie Jones (Dutton,1990), a memoir of the beat scene of the fifties and sixties, and her latest books of poems, Doing 70 (Hanging Loose Press, 2007).
ALICE QUINN is the Executive Director of Poetry Society of America; for twenty years she was the Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.
free and open to the public