FRANNIE LINDSAY – Featured reader

Frannie Lindsay‘s fourth volume of poetry, Our Vanishing, has been awarded the 2012 Benjamin Saltman Award by Red Hen Press.

Her other books are Mayweed (2009 Washington Prize, The Word Works); Lamb (2006 Perugia Press Prize); and Where She Always Was, winner of the 2004 May Swenson Award and published by Utah State University Press.

Winner of the 2008 Missouri Review Prize, her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Field, Poetry International, The Harvard Review, Shenandoah, The Tampa Review, and many other journals. It is also forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2014. Lindsay’s work has also been featured in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’sAmerican Life in Poetry, and on Writer’s Almanac and Poetry Daily. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is a classical pianist and lives in Belmont.

The Brookline Poetry Series meets once a month on Sunday afternoons, September through May, normally in Hunneman Hall at the Public Library of Brookline Main Branch (361 Washington St., Brookline, MA 02445). Usually, one or two established poets read, followed by an open mike. You may contact the organizers via email at poetry@brooklinelibrary.org. Please do not send written correspondence in care of the Library.

Timing of performances:
• 1:30 PM • Doors open
• 1:45 PM • Open mike sign-up
• 2 – 4 PM • Poetry readings

N.B. Usually the third Sunday of the month. On rare occasions, this may vary to accommodate holidays or special Library events, so be sure to check the Library Calendar or this page before attending. (Also, all meetings are held at the Main Library if possible, but on very rare occasions we have had to move to the Coolidge Corner Branch because of a scheduling conflict.)