Blue Raven Gallery Poetry Reading Series: Catherine Barnett with Myronn Hardy

08/20/2025 - 7:00pm
Poetry
Reading

There is nothing like a poem to inspire, heal, and provoke. As Major Jackson says, “a poem advances our humanity in language.” Blue Raven Gallery Poetry Reading Series brings some of the most prominent and distinguished voices in poetry to the central Maine coast. The readings take place in Blue Raven Gallery’s one-of-a-kind space, where poets and audience members are surrounded by a curated collection of some of the country’s best painting, photography, sculpture, and contemporary art.  

Readers: Catherine Barnett and Myronn Hardy

Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (2024 Graywolf Press); Human Hours (2018 Believer Book Award, New York Times "Best Poetry of 2018" selection); The Game of Boxes (James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets); and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award).

A Guggenheim fellow and Whiting Award recipient, she was recently honored with a 2022 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The NY Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, and elsewhere.

She's been a visiting professor in the MFA Program at Hunter College, Barnard College, and Princeton University. She currently teaches in NYU's MFA Program and works as an independent editor.

Myronn Hardy is the author of four volumes of poetry,  Approaching the Center, winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, The Headless Saints, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Catastrophic Bliss, winner of the Griot-Stadler Prize for Poetry, and most recently, Kingdom.  His poems have appeared in PloughsharesVirginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, FIELDVersal (Amsterdam), and elsewhere.  His short stories have  garnered two Pushcart Prize nominations.  Hardy has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Annenberg Foundation, Djerassi, Cave Canem, Instituto Sacatar, and Fundación Valparaiso.  He is currently working on his first novel.  He divides his time between New York City and Morocco.

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Blue Raven Gallery
374 Main Street
Rockland, ME 04841

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