Kate Rushin Reads At Hygienic Art On Thursday

An award-winning Connecticut poet will visit New London this week to read from her works.

Kate Rushin will read her poetry starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Hygienic Art. The event is free, but any donations will go toward supporting other readings in the future.

Rushin is the author of the poetry collection The Black Back-Ups. Her work "The Bridge Poem" appeared in the anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Rushin has also received the Grolier Poetry Prize and the Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize.

According to her website, Rushin teaches poetry at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts She has previously taught poetry and African-American literature courses at Wesleyan University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received fellowships from Brown University, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and The Cave Canem Foundation.  Her work has appeared in Callaloo and The Sunken Garden Anthology. 

For more information, contact Hygienic Art at 860-443-8001.

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