Join us for a unique event. 

Poets Jane Clare and Teri Cross Davis read from their recently published work  

About the poets 

"Jane's poems have a two-fold quality of tenderness - not simply their affectionate respect for people and for ways of life, but also the courage to go close to the raw places, facing the grief and unease which comes from loving what can be or already has been lost."

- Philip Gross, Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009 

Jane Clarke's first collection, The River, is published by Bloodaxe Books. 

Originally from a farm in Roscommon, Jane now lives near Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow. She was shortlisted for the Royal Society for Literature Ondaatje Award 2016 and has won the 2016 Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry. She also won the 2014 Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection Award, the 2014 Trocaire/Poetry Ireland Competition, the inaugural Poems for Patience, 2013; Listowel Writers' Week (2007) and the iYeats (2010) and was shortlisted for the 2013 & 2014 Hennessy Literary Awards. 

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Teri Ellen Cross Davis is a Cave Canem fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and has attended the Soul Mountain Writer's Retreat, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is on the Advisory Council of Split This Rock (a biennial poetry festival in Washington DC) and a member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective. Her work has been published in many anthologies including: Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. Her first collection Haint was published in June, 2016 by Gival Press. She lives in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis and their two children. 

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 A wonderful opportunity to engage with these two outstanding poets  AND to participate in Jackie Hoysted's new performance art piece

#Vote4Pope. This is a public participatory art project intended to draw attention to the unequal status of women in the Catholic Church in a fun and jestful manner.  

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 Discussion with all  three artists and Frugal but classy reception to follow  

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