Wor-Wic to Host Amelia Martens Poetry Reading

Spoons IN THe GRass

In celebration of national poetry month, Wor-Wic Community College is hosting a poetry reading with Amelia Martens on Tuesday, April 13, at 7 p.m., via Zoom.

She is the author of “The Spoons in the Grass are There To Dig a Moat” and four poetry chapbooks, “Ursa Minor,” winner of the 2017 Elsewhere Poetry Chapbook Prize, “A Series of Faults,” “Clatter” and “Purgatory,” winner of the Spring 2010 Black River Chapbook competition. In 2019, she received an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council.

She holds both a master of fine arts degree in creative writing and a master of science degree in literacy, culture and language education from Indiana University in Bloomington. She is an assistant professor in the English department at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, where she is also the associate literary editor for “Exit 7: A Journal of Literature and Art.”

Visit the events section of www.worwic.edu for more information.