Listen as Max Garland reads from his new book of poetry, Into the Good World Again. The poems offer grace, resilience and healing remembrance in the unsettling times of the global pandemic. They not only reflect on the anguish and isolation, but also on the creative and restorative forces to be found.
Light refreshments will be served. Books will be available for purchase.
About Max GarlandGarland’s previous books include The Word We Used for It, winner of the Brittingham Poetry Prize, The Postal Confessions, winner of the Juniper Prize, and Hunger Wide as Heaven, which won the Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Competition. He has received an NEA Poetry Fellowship, a Michener Fiction fellowship, a Bush Artist Fellowship, inclusion in Best American Short Stories, and fellowships in poetry and fiction from the Wisconsin Arts Board. Garland is Professor Emeritus at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, served as Writer-in-Residence for the city of Eau Claire, and is the former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin.