Student Tribune
Visiting Poet Elana Bell
The English/Philosophy Department, Creative Writing Program, and Creative
Arts Committee are thrilled to announce that poet Elana Bell will
"visit" campus this coming Monday, March 1, at 1 PM.
Elana is the author of Mother Country, (BOA Editions 2020) a book
of poems about motherhood, fertility, and mental illness. Her debut collection
of poetry, Eyes, Stones (LSU Press 2012), received the 2011 Walt
Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and brings her complex
heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult
question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Elana is the recipient of grants
and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, and
the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her writing has appeared in AGNI,
Harvard Review, and the Massachusetts Review, among
others. She was an inaugural finalist for the Freedom Plow Award for
Poetry & Activism, an award that recognizes and honors a poet who is doing
innovative and transformative work at the intersection of poetry and social
change. Elana teaches poetry to actors at the Juilliard School and sings with
the Resistance Revival Chorus, a group of women activists and musicians
committed to bringing joy and song to the resistance movement.
Here is the link to the event and also to a special, pre-recorded reading
that can be shared with students:
Zoom Link > https://monroecommu
nity.zoom.us/j/83266829710
Reading Link > Elana Bell - reading from Mother
Country (suny.edu)
Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu with any questions.
We hope to see you and your students there!
Attached Files:
Elana Bell Poster.pdf
Brandt, Maria
English/Philosophy and Creative Arts
03/02/2021