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Iain Haley Pollock
"Ghost, like a Place"
a Poetry Reading
April 11, NL 314, 2-4pm
Pollock will present poems from his second collection, Ghost, like a Place. This collection highlights the complexities of being a father and raising young children while bearing witness to the charged movements against the inequities of race in America and toward social justice. The poems in the collection also consider the persistence of history in the present moment and the intersection of environment and memory. Following the reading, Pollock will answer questions about individual poems and his writing process.Iain Haley Pollock is the author of two poetry collections, Ghost, Like a Place and Spit Back a Boy, which won the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Baffler, and The New York Times Magazine. Pollock teaches English at Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY, and is a member of the poetry faculty at the Solstice MFA program of Pine Manor College. He also serves as poetry editor at Solstice Literary Magazine.
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