Molloy College to host poetry event

The Island Now

Molloy College and its writer-in-residence, Barbara Novack, will be hosting a poetry event featuring Pramila Venkateswaran on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 3 p.m. in the Reception Room, Kellenberg Hall, on Molloy College’s Rockville Centre campus. This event is free and open to the public. An open reading will follow the featured poet.

Pramila Venkateswaran, Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, is an award-winning poet and author of four poetry collections, numerous essays on poetics, as well as creative non-fiction. She teaches English and Women’s Studies at Nassau Community College and was the 2011 Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Long Island Poet of the Year.  

The Poetry Events series at Molloy College was founded by Barbara Novack in conjunction with the English Department.  The aim of the series is to bring contemporary poetry to a wider audience. 

For additional information about this event, please contact the English Department at (516) 323-3260 or Barbara Novack, writer-in-residence, at (516) 323-3273.

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