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Charlottesville bookshop to host two critically-acclaimed poets for reading on Friday

Crystal Graham

new dominion bookshop charlottesville New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading with poets Brian Teare and Aditi Machado next week.

The reading will take place on Friday, Feb. 28, from 7-8 p.m. at the bookshop.

Teare will be reading from his recent poetry, and Machado will be reading from her new collection, Material Witness.

A 2020 Guggenheim fellow, Teare is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize. His most recent publications are a pair of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man, winner of the William Carlos Williams award. An associate professor of poetry at the University of Virginia, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Machado is a poet, translator and essayist. Her books include the poetry collections Material Witness (2024); Emporium, winner of the James Laughlin award (2020); and Some Beheadings, winner of The Believer PoetryaAward (2017), all from Nightboat. She is also the translator of Farid Tali’s novel Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016). Her writing appears in journals like BOMB, Chicago Review, jubilat, Lana Turner, Volt and Western Humanities Review, as well as in chapbook form. She serves as an advisory poetry editor for The Paris Review and teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

This in-person event is free to attend and open to the public.

New Dominion Bookshop is located at 404 E Main St. in Charlottesville.

For more information, visit ndbookshop.com.

 

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Crystal Graham

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A 1999 graduate of Virginia Tech, Crystal Graham has worked for 25 years as a reporter and editor for several Virginia publications, written a book, and garnered more than a dozen Virginia Press Association awards for writing and graphic design. She was the co-host of "Viewpoints," a weekly TV news show, and co-host of "Virginia Tonight," a nightly TV news show, both broadcast on PBS. Her work on "Virginia Tonight" earned her a national Telly award for excellence in television. You can reach her at [email protected]. Support AFP by signing up for our newsletter and/or powering our work with a one-time or monthly contribution.

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