Tompkins Corners will welcome poet Donna Masini to our outdoor stage. The author of three books of poems, 4:30 Movie (W.W. Norton and Co., 2018), Turning to Fiction (Norton, 2004), and That Kind of Danger (Beacon Press, 1994), she has also written a novel, About Yvonne (Norton,1998).
Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Poetry, Ploughshares, Paris Review, and Five Points. Adrienne Rich has said: “Donna Masini’s poems are on the wavelength of Whitman and Rukeyser but are inimitably her own: urban, sexual, working-class, passionate, marked by great moral intelligence and generosity. She is one of the marvelous new poets this country is generating in a terrible time.”
Donna is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had fellowship residencies at Civitella Ranieri, Bogliasco and Yaddo and is a Professor of English/Creative Writing at Hunter College, CUNY.
Following Donna will be an open mic. All writers are welcome! Tickets are $10 and may be purchased HERE or at the door.