BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts DESCRIPTION:Join Megan Fernandes as she reads from her latest poetry collec tion\, GOOD BOYS accomplanied by Catherine Pond and Callie Siskel!\n\nMegan Fernandes is a writer living in New York City. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Qu arterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, The Common\, Gue rnica\, the Academy of American Poets\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, amo ng others. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015 ). Her second book of poetry\, Good Boys\, was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize (2018)\, the Saturnalia Book Prize (2018)\, and is forthcoming w ith Tin House Books in February 2020. Fernandes is an Assistant Professor o f English at Lafayette College and teaches courses on poetry\, creative non fiction\, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the Universi ty of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston Universit y.\n\nCatherine Pond's debut collection\, Fieldglass\, won the Crab Orchard First Book Award in Poetry (judge: Traci Brimhall) in 2019\, and is forthc oming with Southern Illinois University Press in 2021. She is a PhD candida te in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern Califor nia and holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University\, where she was awa rded the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2013. She is co-founder of the online literary magazine Two Peach (with Julia Anna Morrison). Catherine li ves in Los Angeles. \n\nCallie Siskel is the author of Arctic Revival\, se lected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems appea r in Ploughshares\, A Public Space\, The Yale Review\, and other journals. She has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewa nee Writers’ Conference\, the Napa Valley Writers' Conference\, the Johns H opkins University Writing Seminars\, and the University of Southern Califor nia\, where she is a Dornsife Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing and Liter ature. \n\nLearn more about the event here. DTEND:20200301T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260411T050904Z DTSTART:20200301T010000Z LOCATION:Skylight Books: 1818 N Vermont Ave Los Angeles\, CA 90027 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes reads from her new poetry collection\, Good Boys ac companied by Catherine Pond and Callie Siskel UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_32743619648152 URL:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/megan_fernandes_reads_from_her_new_poetr y_collection_good_boys_accompanied_by_catherine_pond_and_callie_siskel END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR