Suffolk University English Department Faculty Poetry Reading

Release Reading for Gregory Lawless’s FAR AWAY (Red Mountain Press, 2015)

Thursday, October 8, 7:00pm – 9:00pm

The Poetry Center at Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02108, on the 3rd Floor of the Sawyer Library

Gregory Lawless is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and the winner of the 2013 Orphic Prize for Poetry and the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Cimarron Review, The National Poetry Review, Salamander, Cider Press Review, Third Coast, The Cincinnati Review, and many others. He is the author of the books I Thought I Was New Here (BlazeVOX, 2009), Far Away (Red Mountain Press, 2015) and Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania (Dream Horse Press, forthcoming).

George Kalogeris teaches English Literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University. He is the author of a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos (Antilever, 2012), and of a book of poems based on the life and notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer, 2006). His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, (chosen by Christopher Ricks, Waywiser, 2010). He recently completed a manuscript of poems, Guide to Greece.