Join the Poetry Society for our new reading series. This installment includes Andrea Cohen & Nick Flynn.
Andrea Cohen is the author of eight collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024). Cohen’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Threepenny Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and several residencies at MacDowell. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches poetry at Boston University.
Nick Flynn (writer, playwright, poet) has published twelve books, most recently Low (Graywolf, 2023); This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (Norton, 2020), a hybrid memoir; and Stay: threads, collaborations, and conversations (ZE Books, 2020), which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. He is also the author of five collections of poetry, including I Will Destroy You (Graywolf, 2019). He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, and is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston. His acclaimed memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro, and has been translated into fifteen languages.