About this Event
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https://www.harpercollege.edu/services/arts/index.phpThe Harper College Authors Series and Cultural Arts Committee presents a poetry reading by author Sandra Marchetti .
Sandra Marchetti is the 2023 winner of The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Poetry Book of the Year.
She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, DIORAMA, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2025), Aisle 228 (SFA Press, 2023), and Confluence (Sundress Publications, 2015). Sandy is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her poetry and essays appear widely in Mid-American Review, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor Emerita at River Styx Magazine. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at Harper College in Chicagoland.
You can find out more at: https://sandramarchetti.net/
Praise for Sandra Marchetti's upcoming release DIORAMA
In DIORAMA, Sandra Marchetti’s pensive and beautiful collection, a poet’s deeply lyric engagement with the world plays out as a series of tense, distilled encounters filled with longing. These poems survey our surroundings with attention to both opportunity and challenge. I admire this book’s elegant doggedness; each poem begins with a gaze, then becomes an investigation.
Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode: Poems
Without a single extraneous phrase or adjective, Sandra Marchetti’s DIORAMA sounds finely tuned, the line breaks impeccable. Marchetti charms and alarms the senses—her unique voice and juxtaposition provide precarious divides between the beautiful and distressed, comfort stalked and cushioned by the dark. Natalie Padilla Young, Editor-in-Chief of Sugar House Review, and author of All of This Was Once Under Water
In her latest collection, Sandra Marchetti offers us beautifully concise poems that slow our breath. DIORAMA is a celebration of feathers floated in air, smashed sea glass at our feet, the fuzzy fronds on tomato plants, and the lonely winks of satellites, assembled into poetic wisdom and freedom.
Juan J. Morales, author of The Handyman’s Guide to End Times
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