River Styx’s beloved reading series continues its 42nd season with James Crews and Jacinda Townsend—on October 17th at 7:30 p.m. at the Contemporary Art Museum. Admission is $5 for the general public and $4 for students and seniors.
James Crews’s work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and Raleigh Review, among other journals, and he is a regular contributor to The (London) Times Literary Supplement. His first collection of poetry, The Book of What Stays (University of Nebraska Press, 2011), won the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and received Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award. He is also the editor of the forthcoming ecopoetry anthology Poems for the Earth. Other awards include residencies from the Sitka Center for the Arts and Caldera Arts as well as two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Writing and Literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was an Othmer Fellow and worked for Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry newspaper column. He lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont.
Jacinda Townsend is the author of Saint Monkey (W.W. Norton, 2014), which is set in 1950’s Eastern Kentucky and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Saint Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and shortlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize. The novel received critical acclaim from numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, which reviewed it in the Sunday Book Review and listed in Paperback Row. Saint Monkey was also listed in the Louisville Courier Journal’s Year-End Favorites and named to The Root’s Top Novels of 2014: it was chosen as May, 2015’s Book of the Month by the Go on Girl! national book club.
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