Assumption University Poets John Hodgen and David Thoreen Read at TidePool Bookshop

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John Hodgen is Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University in Worcester, MA, and advisory editor for New Letters at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Hodgen won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). His fifth book, The Lord of Everywhere , is out from Lynx House/University of Washington Press. He has won the Grolier Prize for Poetry, an Arvon Foundation Award, the Yankee Magazine Award for Poetry, the Bluestem Award, the Balcones Prize, the Foley Prize, the Chad Walsh Prize, the Collins Prize, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in Poetry, and a poem included in Scribner’s Best American Poetry 2017. His new book What We May Be is out from Lynx House Press.

David Thoreen ’s poems have appeared in The Worcester Review, Diner, The Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, Salamander, Slate , and elsewhere. His story “Lighter than Air” won the Minnesota Monthly’s Tamarack Award , and his poems have placed in The Comstock Review’s Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest . He teaches writing and literature at Assumption University.

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