As good fortune would have it, following the Holocaust Convocation our colleague, Joan Seliger Sidney, will be launching her latest book of poetry, Bereft and Blessed, at the UConn Bookstore. Why not join us for both events!

Apr 28 2014 7:00 pm, at UConn Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center, One Royce Circle, Unit 101, Storrs

Jennifer Sidney Silva, a flautist with the Elm City Winds, will open the evening.

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Joan Seliger Sidney’s new book from Antrim House, Bereft and Blessed.  Joan Seliger Sidney’s Body of Diminishing Motion: Poems and a Memoir was published by CavanKerry Press. Her poems have appeared in The Louisville Review, The Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Jewish Currents, Caduceus, Theodate, and elsewhere. Joan has received individual artist’s poetry fellowships from Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, also a Visiting Faculty Fellowship from Yale. She’s writer-in-residence at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. In addition, she facilitates “Writing for Your Life,” an adult workshop.

 

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