Visiting Poet and Fiction Writer Sarah Freligh, November 6

On Wednesday, November 6, from 1 to 1:50 p.m., nationally recognized poet and fiction writer Sarah Freligh will visit the Brighton campus and read and discuss prose poems from her prize-winning collection A Brief Natural History of Women. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in room 9-244. For those students who wish to access the reading and discussion remotely, they can attend via Zoom.

Sarah Freigh is the author of five books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize, and the 2015 Whirling Prize from the University of Indianapolis, and A Brief Natural History of Women, published in 2023 by Harbor Editions. Recent work has appeared in the Cincinnati Review miCRo series, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sun Magazine, The Wigleaf 50, and in anthologies New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018). Best Microfiction (2019-2022) and Best Small Fiction 2022. Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation.