Colorado Springs poet Jessy Randall will present the third of four presentations in the spring Southern Colorado Reading Series beginning at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11 in the Occhiato University Center Cottonwood Room at Colorado State University-Pueblo.
Randall's poems and other works have appeared in
Antietam Review,
Asimov's,
Many Mountains Moving,
McSweeney's,
Mudfish,
Painted Bride Quarterly,
Rattle, and
Sentence. She writes regularly for Verbatim:
The Language Quarterly and occasionally guest-edits the online poetry magazine Snakeskin. Her first full-length collection of poems,
A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. She is the curator of special collections at Colorado College and lives in Colorado Springs with her family. Her website is
http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall.
The reading is free. All books are on sale at the CSU-Pueblo Bookstore and will be on sale at the event. For more information, contact Juan J. Morales, assistant professor and director of creative writing, at 549-2082 or
juan.morales@colostate-pueblo.edu.
The final reading for the spring semester will be on Thursday, April 16.