Writers & Books teams up with BOA Editions, the iconic Rochester-based publisher, to host award-winning poet Craig Morgan Teicher presenting Little Mr. Prose Poem: The Selected Poems of Russell Edson on November 14, 7:30 pm. Teicher will give a brief reading, followed by a conversation with BOA Editions Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners.The November 14 event will take place online via Zoom.
Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of four books of poems: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey (BOA, 2021); The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), recipient of the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012); and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems (CLP, 2007). He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010); the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014); and We Begin in Gladness (Graywolf, 2018), a collection of essays. He edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016) and serves as a poetry editor for The Literary Review. He is a 2021 recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.