May 18: Dorianne Laux

Poet Dorianne Laux will read at noon on Friday, May 18 in the CCC Literary Arts Center. The reading is open and free to the public.

Laux is the author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990), introduced by Philip Levine, What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke (2000). She is also co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997). Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, was published by W.W. Norton in fall of 2005.