Molloy College Poetry Event to Feature Gerry LaFemina

Molloy College and its Writer-in-Residence, Barbara Novack, will be hosting a poetry event featuring Gerry LaFemina on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. in the Reception Room, Kellenberg Hall, on Molloy College's Rockville Centre campus. This event is free and open to the public. An open reading will follow the featured presentation.

Gerry LaFemina's numerous award-winning poetry collections include The Parakeets of Brooklyn and his latest, The Story of Ash. He is also the author of a novel, a collection of prose poems, and a collection of essays. A noted advocate for poetry, he teaches at Frostburg State University in Maryland, serves as a Mentor in the MFA program at Carlow University, and is the author of the groundbreaking textbook Composing Poetry: A Guide to Writing Poems and Thinking Lyrically.

The Poetry Events series at Molloy College was founded by Barbara Novack in conjunction with the English Department. The aim of the series is to bring contemporary poetry to a wider audience.

For additional information about this event, please contact or the English Department at (516) 323-3260 or Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence, at (516) 323-3273.