Transatlantic Poetry and The Poetry Society present a free worldwide online reading with poets on both sides of the Atlantic.
Join Fran Lock from the UK and Solmaz Sharif from the USA for a poetry reading and live Q&A, hosted by The Poetry Society, which you can watch live via YouTube or Google+ Hangout. Bookmark the links and visit them at the time of the event, or book into your Google Calendar.
About the poets:
Fran Lock is a sometime itinerant dog whisperer and poet, now living and working in London. Her debut collection Flatrock (Little Episodes) was launched in May 2011. Her work has appeared in various places, includingAmbit, Poetry London, The Rialto, The Stinging Fly, and in Best British Poetry 2012 (Salt). Her second collection The Mystic and the Pig Thief (Salt) came out in September 2014. She is the winner of the 2014 Ambit Poetry Competition. She won third prize in The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition 2014.
Solmaz Sharif is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her poetry has appeared The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and others. Her work has most recently been selected to receive a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award as well as a 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Her first poetry collection, LOOK, a poetic rewrite of the US Department of Defense’s dictionary, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017.