Readings

Poetry: Carrie Jerrell

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Carrie Jerrell was awarded the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for her collection After the Revival. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is an assistant professor of English at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, and serves as the poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. Jerrell received her MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and her PhD from Texas Tech University.

Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, the Hammer Programs Committee, and Susan and Leonard Nimoy.

This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide.