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Poet and Nonfiction Writer Michael Klein Visiting MCC


MCC’s Creative Arts Committee is pleased to announce that poet and creative non-fiction writer Michael Klein is visiting campus in March 2013. Klein will read from his work on Thursday, March 28, at 7 PM, in Monroe A/B. This event is free and open to the public. Klein also will host a workshop for the MCC community on Friday, March 29, during College Hour, in 8-200.

Michael Klein’s latest book of poems, then, we were still living (GenPop Books), was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.  His first book, 1990, tied with James Schuyler to win the award in 1993.  A collection of short, lyric essays, States of Independence, won the 2011 BLOOM Chapbook contest in non-fiction judged by Rigoberto Gonzalez and was published in the Fall of 2012. Recent work appears in Fence, Tin House, Lumina, and Ocean State Review. And his new book of poems, The Talking Day, will be published in 2013 by Sibling Rivalry Press. He teaches in the MFA Program at Goddard College in Vermont and has a blog at <
boysinger.wordpress.com>.

For more information, please contact Maria Brandt at: <"mailto:mbrandt@monroecc.edu>. We hope to see you there!

Maria Brandt
ENG/PHL
02/12/2013