Poetry

Sandra Yannone joins us at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 24th, to read from her debut poetry collection Boats for Women, published by Salmon Poetry. Reading with Yannone will be Portland poet Alissa Hattman. Using a range of free verse and traditional forms, Yannone’s poems plot intersections and transgressions of the personal and the historical like a cartographer drafting a nautical chart, along the way documenting how women discover and recover from the intimacies of loving each other through time. Yannone grew up in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Her poems, book reviews, and articles have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Seattle Review, and The Gay and Lesbian Review. Her work has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and…