Poet Nicole Cooley Visits SUNY Delhi

DELHI, NY (03/11/2014)(readMedia)-- Poet Nicole Cooley will visit SUNY Delhi Tuesday, April 1, when she will present a public reading of her work at 7 p.m. in Centennial Center, Sanford Hall on the SUNY Delhi campus.

Cooley is the author of four collections of poetry, including Breach, a collection of poems about Hurricane Katrina; Milk Dress, co-winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award; The Afflicted Girls, which focuses on the Salem witch trials; and Resurrection, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is also the author of a novel, Judy Garland, Ginger Love. She has won a Discovery/The Nation Award, an NEA, a Creative Artists fellowship from The American Antiquarian Society, and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. Originally from New Orleans, Cooley teaches at Queens College-City University of New York.

This event is free and open to the public. Cooley's visit is supported by the Erpf-Sanford Visiting Professors Program and the Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact Professor Lynn Domina at 746-4204.