DURHAM, N.H. -- Poet Andrea Cohen will read from her work and hold a Q&A session Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building, Theatre I, as part of the UNH Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Cohen's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her books include "Furs Not Mine," just out from Four Way Books, "Kentucky Derby," "Long Division," and "The Cartographer's Vacation." She has received a PEN Discovery Award, Glimmer Train's Short Fiction Award, and several fellowships at The MacDowell Colony. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Mass., and the Writers House at Merrimack College.

Salamander Magazine says of her work: "If there is a world in a grain of sand, Andrea Cohen lifts it up to us in the predominantly short poems of her new collection, "Furs

Not Mine." The brevity of these poems allows the reader to devour them quickly, only to pause and then go back, and then go back again, because their speed and clarity is deceptive. In their way, each is a complex system, and Cohen, with her perfect pitch,  pairs music with image." 

The UNH Writers Series is made possible through the support of the MacArthur/Simic and Edmund G. Miller Funds and the Ben and Zelma Dorson Family Charitable Foundation. For more information, contact the English Department at (603) 862-1313.

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