Note: This reading will take place at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Poet Sara Henning, who graduated from UGA in 2003 with a BA in English, will read from her new poetry collection, Terra Incognita, during a virtual event with Avid Bookshop.  Reading with Henning will be current Ph.D. graduate student Paul Cunningham.  This event will take place over Zoom on Thursday, April 28th at 7 p.m. and is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.

Henning’s Terra Incognita won Ohio University Press’s annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and the collection has received endorsements from Maggie Smith, Mark Jarman, and Rebecca Morgan Frank.

Sara Henning is the author of View from True North, co-winner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award. Her honors include the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the George Bogin Memorial Award, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, and awards from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been published in journals such as Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Crazyhorse, Meridian, and the Cincinnati Review. She lives and writes in Nacogdoches, Texas, where she serves as coordinator of the BFA Program in Creative Writing at Stephen F. Austin State University. She also serves as poetry editor of Stephen F. Austin State University Press.

Paul Cunningham is the recipient of the 2021 Diann Blakely Poetry Prize and the 2015 Sparks Prize Fellowship. He is the author of Fall Garment (Schism Press, 2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (Schism Press, 2020). His most recent poetry chapbook is The Inmost (Carrion Bloom Books, 2020). His interests include literary translation in theory and practice, decadent poetics, and ecocritical studies. He holds a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame and he co-manages Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation.

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