Poet Benjamin Grossberg to Give Reading

Award-winning poet Benjamin Grossberg, who serves as director of creative writing and associate professor of English at the University of Hartford, will give a reading at Westminster Jan. 16 as a part of the school’s Friday Nights in Gund, a series of readings, lectures and concerts held at Westminster during the academic year. The student readers will be Sixth Formers Shelby Gamble and Aubrey Moulton.
 
Grossberg is the author of “Space Traveler”; “Sweet Core Orchard,” winner of the Tampa Review Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; and “Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath,” winner of the Snyder Prize. He has also published the chapbook “The Auctioneer Bangs his Gavel.” His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and numerous magazines.
 
Grossberg’s Westminster School reading is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the school’s Armour Academic Center. Refreshments will be served after the concert and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour Academic Center.
 
The Friday Nights in Gund series is made possible by generous grants from The Ensign Bickford Foundation and the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund.