Join us for a reading with poets Matt MacFarland and Stephen Cushman. Matt MacFarland will be reading from his recent work, and Stephen Cushman will be reading from his new collection, Keep the Feast. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.
Matt MacFarland has been a finalist for prizes from New Issues Press and Nimrod International Journal. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, The Southern Review, December, Third Coast, Grist, Memorious, Fugue, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville, where he works as an editor for S&P Global Sustainable1. He is looking forward to reading with Stephen Cushman at New Dominion.
Stephen Cushman’s newest book of poems, Keep the Feast (LSU, 2022), joins half a dozen others, most recent among them Hothead (LSU, 2018) and The Red List (LSU, 2014). He is general editor of the fourth edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012) and Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is looking forward to reading with Matt MacFarland at New Dominion.