Purchase College - SUNY will present A Reading and Conversation with Brenda Shaughnessy on Tuesday, September 24, 2019, at 4:30 p.m. The program, which is free and open to the public, will take place at Purchase College in the Recital Hall of the Music Building (735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY). The acclaimed poet will launch the new season of Durst Distinguished Lectures. Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of five highly regarded poetry collections, including The Octopus Museum, So Much Synth, and Our Andromeda, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, the International Griffin Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Paris Review, O Magazine, and other prestigious publications.
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