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Poetry Reading: Christine Kelly and Tan Lin

Poetry Reading: Christine Kelly and Tan Lin

Friday, April 25, 2025

6:00 PM–7:00 PM
Auditorium
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Poets Christine Kelly and Tan Lin present a reading in celebration of Kelly's debut collection of poems, Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025).

Poet and artist Christine Kelly is the author of Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025) and the chapbooks Food Gas Lodging Liquid Solid (Creative Writing Department, 2023), Dopamine Agonist Destiny Forest (Theme Can Print Editions, 2018), and Pudding Time (DoubleCross Press, 2015). She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate College of Arts at Bard College and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She is graduate program coordinator in the Williams College/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art.

Tan Lin is the author of fourteen books, including Heath Course Pak (2012), Bib. Rev. Ed., Insomnia and the Aunt (2011), 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (2010), Plagiarism/Outsource (2009), Ambience is a Novel with a Logo (2007), BlipSoak01 (2003), and Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe (2000). His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Conjunctions, Artforum, Criticism, boundary2, Cabinet, the New York Times Book Review, Art in America, and Purple. His video, theatrical, and LCD work have been shown at Artists Space, the Marianne Boesky Gallery, the Yale University Art Gallery, Sophienholm Museum (Copenhagen), Ontological Hysterical Theatre, and the Treize Gallery in Paris. Lin earned a PhD from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at New Jersey City University and Columbia University. His novel, Our Feelings Were Made by Hand, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press.

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.

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