Award Winning Author to Conduct Poetry Reading and Workshop

Karina Borowicz, author of the award-winning volumes, The Bees are Waiting and Proof, will read from her latest volume and also conduct a poetry workshop on Thursday, Nov. 6.  The reading will be at 7 p.m. in the Honors Center, and the workshop will be held on the same day from 2-3:15 p.m. in Jacobson Faculty Tower, Room 1010.

Borowicz’s debut poetry volume, The Bees are Waiting (2012), won the Marick Press Poetry Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry, the First Horizon Award, and was named a Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.  Her second book, Proof (2014), won the Codhill Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.  Her poems have appeared in many journals including AGNI, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest and The Southern Review, and her work was recently featured on The Writer’s Almanac.

Students should contact Pauline Uchmanowicz (uchmanop@newpaltz.edu) to sign up for the workshop.