Poetry Forum: Catherine Barnett & Donna Masini

Catherine Barnett is the author of three collections of poetry. Her most recent book, Human Hours, will be published in early fall 2018 by Graywolf Press. Her two previous collections are Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, which won the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Book, and The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her honors include a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches graduate and undergraduate students in the Creative Writing Program at NYU and is a Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College. 
 
Donna Masini in the author of three books of poems--4:30 Movie (W.W. Norton and Co., 2018), Turning to Fiction (Norton 2004), That Kind of Danger (Beacon Press, 1994)--and a novel, About Yvonne (Norton,1998). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Pushcart Prize, Brooklyn Poets, Best American Poetry 2015.  A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, she is a Professor of English at Hunter College where she teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program.
 
The event is moderated by Honor Moore.