The Arkansas International and the U of A Program in Creative Writing & Translation are proud to present an evening of poetry with their Fall 2024 Featured Reader, acclaimed poet Andrea Cohen. The event will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Willard and Pat Walker Community Room of the Fayetteville Public Library.

The reading, which is part of Fayetteville Public Library's TrueLit Festival lineup and hosted by literary magazine the Arkansas International, is free and open to the public. Cohen is the author of eight poetry collections, including, most recently, The Sorrow Apartments. Copies of her books will be available for purchase from Two Friends Books. Arkansas International issues will also be available for purchase, and a short book signing will take place after the reading. Masks are encouraged.

Cohen's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Threepenny Review, The Atlantic and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Emerson College, UMASS-Boston, Boston University, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Merrimack College, where she was the founding director of the Writers' House. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and several fellowships at MacDowell, Cohen now teaches at Boston University and directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About the Arkansas International: The Arkansas International seeks to put emerging and established authors from across the world in conversation with one another. Launched by the University of Arkansas' Creative Writing & Translation program in 2016, the AI has published fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and works in translation from over 60 countries, including Egypt, Brazil, Venezuela, South Korea, Iran, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Russia, Italy, Galica, and Hungary. The AI also awards the annual C.D. Wright Emerging Poet's Prize and an Emerging Writer's Prize in Fiction, both given to authors who have not yet published full-length works.

The Arkansas International is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit publication committed to supporting writers and translators. Our publication is made possible by grants from the Program in Creative Writing & Translation and the Department of English at the University of Arkansas, the Whiting Foundation, as well as the generous support of individuals.

About the U of A M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Translation: For 50 years, the University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation has served as a preeminent training ground for some of the nation's best writers. Established in 1966, ours is one of the oldest M.F.A. programs in the nation and one of the most innovative, offering degree tracks in poetry, fiction, and literary translation.