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Poetry Month with Harriet Shenkman | Online

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Celebrate National Poetry with Harriet Shenkman and dive into her poetry collection Wonder Wheel. Harriet Shenkman is an exacting and yet still fanciful poet, and her collection Wonder Wheel is an exhilarating, yet sometimes harrowing, ride. Wonder Wheel is a deeply moving collection that captures the circular nature of life. 

About the Author

Harriet Shenkman is the current Poet-in-Residence at the JCC of Mid-Westchester. She is a professor emerita at City University of New York. Her poetry awards include the Women’s National Book Association Annual Contest and the Women Who Write International Poetry Contest. Raised in Brooklyn, Shenkman is a first generation American.

Joining her will be poet Suzanne Cleary. Her most recent books are Crude Angel and Beauty Mark which won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, the Nassar Poetry Prize, and the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her poems appear in anthologies including Best American Poetry, and in journals including Poetry London, The Atlantic, and Southern Review. She teaches as Core Faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing Program of Converse University.

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