The Betsy hosts a Luncheon Salon with a bevy of writers, local and visiting, to celebrate the contributions of women in the arts.
Join Betsy Writer's Room Poet in Residence, Jennifer Grotz, local poet Julie Marie Wade, and iconic poet Anne Marie Macari for an afternoon of conversation about things that matter.
This event is limited to 15 guests, so reserve your spot today!
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Jennifer Grotz is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Window Left Open. Also a translator from the French and Polish, her most recent translation is Rochester Knockings, a novel by Tunisian-born writer Hubert Haddad. Her poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, Ploughshares, New England Review, and in four volumes of the Best American Poetry anthology. Director of the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference and assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, she teaches at the University of Rochester. More at poetryfoundation.org
Julie Marie Wade is the author of Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Bywater Books, 2014; Colgate University Press, 2010), winner of the Colgate University Press Nonfiction Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir; Without: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2010), selected for the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series; Small Fires: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2011), selected for the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature; Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2013), winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series; Tremolo: An Essay (Bloom Books, 2013), selected by Bernard Cooper as the winner of the Bloom Nonfiction Chapbook Prize; When I Was Straight: Poems (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014), selected for the American Library Association’s Over the Rainbow List; Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016); and SIX: Poems, selected by C.D. Wright as the winner of the AROHO/To the Lighthouse Prize in Poetry. (juliemariewade.net)
Anne Marie Macari is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Red Deer ( Persea, 2015). In 2000 Macari won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize for Ivory Cradle, followed by Gloryland (Alice James, 2005). Macari also coedited, with Carey Salerno, Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry From Alice James Books. Her essays and poems have been widely published in magazines.
