Featured Author: Eleanor Goodman
Venue: Private home in Brighton
All are welcome. RSVP here: https://forms.gle/9t2bXZuc9Q4qhu166  

Poetry and translation fans, this one’s for you! On Saturday, September 12, acclaimed poet and translator Eleanor Goodman will read from her new poetry collection Lessons in Glass and translation Assembly Line Sculpture: Selected Poems of Xu Lizhi. 

Singapore Unbound’s Second Saturdays Reading Series is famous for its literary and potluck offerings in private homes across New York City and Boston—and it’s entirely free! Our gathering will begin with a potluck, followed by a short open mic and then the featured author.

This event is co-sponsored by the Kundiman Northeast Regional Group.

About the Author:

Eleanor Goodman is the author of two poetry collections, Nine Dragon Island and Lessons in Glass, and the translator of seven books from Chinese, including the recently released Assembly Line Sculpture: Selected Poems of Xu Lizhi and the forthcoming 1966: Short Stories by Wang Xiaoni. She is the recipient of awards such as a Fulbright Fellowship to China, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, the Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, the Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.