Poetry reading featuring Gabriel Gudding, assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Illinois State University. A winner of the Starrett Prize, the Nation Discovery Award, and author of two books: A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002) and Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008). He serves on the Board of Directors for the internationalist magazine Mandorla: New Writing from the Americans- Nueva Escritura de las Americas.