The Third Poetry Series will be hosted at Pebble Hill at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. The readings will be by Jennifer Grotz.
Jennifer Grotz is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Still Falling (Graywolf Press, 2023). Also a translator from the French and Polish, her newest translation is Everything I Don't Know, the selected poems of Jerzy Ficowski, co-translated from the Polish with Piotr Sommer (World Poetry, 2021). 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 five volumes of the Best American Poetry anthology. The recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, Grotz has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences, she teaches at the University of Rochester.
The Third Thursday Poetry Series at Pebble Hill is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Learn more about Pebble Hill here.
2023 - 2024 Schedule with the Speakers:
- February 15 - Jennifer Grotz
- March 21 - Southern Humanities Review Spring Session Gregory Pardlo & Laura Spence-Ash
- April 4 - Rose McLarney & Justin Gardiner
- April 18 - Graduating Students Reading
- May 16 - Community Reading