Poetry at Noon, Robert Farnsworth

Poetry at Noon

Robert Farnsworth has published two collections of poetry with Wesleyan University Press: Three or Four Hills and a Cloud (1982), and Honest Water (1989). His poems have appeared widely in periodicals across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K for more than twenty-five years. For seven years he edited poetry for the Washington D.C. quarterly, The American Scholar. His most recent book, Rumored Islands, was released in January from Harbor Mountain Press. He was awarded a NEA Fellowship in poetry in 1990, a PEN Discovery citation in 2005, and the poet’s summer residency at the Frost Place in Franconia, NH in 2006. Farnsworth teaches at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

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To Reserve: Open to the public. There is no fee for this event. Reservations are not required.

Mr. Farnsworth's book will be on sale after his poetry reading.