Poetry Month Readings at Athens Book Center, April 16

In celebration of Poetry Month, the Athens Book Center presents a poetry reading and book signings Sarah Green and Becca J.R. Lachman on Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. at the Athens Book Center, 74 E. State St. in Athens.

Green is a doctoral student in English, and Lachman ’07M.A. is  an alum of the Ohio University Creative Writing program. Refreshments follow the readings.

Green’s Skeleton Evenings (Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY, April 2015) is a winner of the 2014 New Women’s Voices prize.

Green, a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation writing award nominee, most recently appeared in Best New Poets 2012 and the Incredible Sestina Anthology. A Pushcart Prize winner, she has been a semi-finalist for the Discovery prize, Crab Orchard’s first book prize, Barrow Street’s first book prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and the Walt Whitman Award. Her poems have appeared in FIELD, Little Star, Gettysburg Review, Mid-American Review, Redivider, Forklift Ohio, Leveler, H_NGM_N, Ruminate, and elsewhere. In addition to teaching undergraduates at Emerson, Oberlin and Wheaton, she has held poetry teaching residencies in Montmelard, France and San Gimignano, Italy, and spent many years facilitating youth writing workshops in Roxbury and South Boston. Green is one half of the Massachusetts-based Americana band Heartacre. She lives in Ohio, where she is a doctoral candidate in poetry.

Lachman’s Other Acreage is a 2015 poetry collection, Gold Wake Press Collective (Boston MA).

Lachman has lived in Athens for the last decade and teaches and writes at Ohio University. Her poetry collections include Other Acreage (forthcoming, Gold Wake, 2015), The Apple Speaks (Cascadia, 2012), and A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford (ed., Woodley Press, 2013). Also a musician, Lachman writes music and lyrics for Heritage Press. Her recent work has received support from the Ohio Arts Council, the Art Gish Peacemaking Fund, and the Vermont Studio Center. Calling herself “a recovering creative writing degree collector,” Lachman is a grateful grad of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Ohio University, and Otterbein University, where she was a recipient of a 2011 Young Alumni Award.