A Poetry Reading with Sandra Simonds and Monica Ferrell (In-Person)

Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining us for an in-person reading with acclaimed poets Monica Ferrell and Sandra Simonds. Secure your seat today to be part of this special event!

Sandra Simonds, an award-winning writer and professor, is the author of ten books, including Burning Oracle (Wesleyan, 2026). In the last few years, her poetry collection, Triptychs (Wave Books, 2022), was a 2022 New York Times selection and her novel, Assia (Noemi Press, 2023), won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Fiction and was shortlisted for the Dzanc Fiction Prize. She has been a finalist for numerous awards and previously won the University of Akron Poetry Prize for Further Problems with Pleasure (University of Akron Press, 2017) and the Cleveland State University Open Poetry Prize for Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012). She has also been granted residencies at The Arctic Circle Residency, Millay Arts Colony, the Story Villa in Finland, Vermont Studio Center, and Studio Faire in Southern France. Her poetry, criticism, and creative nonfiction have been published in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Best American Poetry, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Granta, Boston Review, Ploughshares, and others.

Monica Ferrell is the author of four books of fiction and poetry, including The Future (March 2026) and the collection You Darling Thing (2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her novel The Answer Is Always Yes (Dial Press/Random House) was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year. Her first collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, was a finalist for the Asian American Writers Workshop Prize in Poetry and won the Sarabande Books Kathryn A. Morton Prize. She has been recognized with residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. She has taught fiction and poetry for the MFA Programs at Columbia University and Bennington College, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College (SUNY). She was born in Delhi, India, and divides her time between Vermont and New York.