Recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant, the Rona Jaffee Writers Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, she has nine books of translation in print, including The Alphabet in the Park, selected poems of Brazilian Ad lia Prado. Watson is an editor at The Massachusetts Review and Director of the Poetry Center at Smith. Jay Wright has received many honors, including awards from the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Ingram Merrill foundations, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement. She holds the Catharine Osgood Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College.
All events are free and open to the public.
Bookselling and signing follow the readings.