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What to Read When You’re Crip and Unafraid

August 9th, 2019

Meg Day and Niki Herd share a reading list to celebrate LAURA HERSHEY: ON THE LIFE & WORK OF AN AMERICAN MASTER.

Meg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize and the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. Day teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Lancaster, PA. Niki Herd’s poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Obsidian, and North American Review, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Cave Canem. She is the author of The Language of Shedding Skin and is an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston.