All events are free and open to the public.
Upton, a winner of the Pushcart Prize for Poetry and the key organizer of the National Poetry Month at Lafayette, will read from and sign copies of Civilian Histories , her fourth volume of poetry, which was recently published by the University of Georgia Press. The event is sponsored by the Friends of Skillman Library. Upton s poems have appeared in dozens of journals and small magazines, including Poetry , American Poetry Review , Yale Review , The New Republic , Boston Review , Kenyon Review , Salmagundi , Iowa Review , Antioch Review , Denver Quarterly , Massachusetts Review , William and Mary Review , and Pennsylvania Review . She is a contributing editor of Denver Quarterly . Upton has also written three volumes of literary criticism analyzing the work of various modern American poets.