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Welcome to the second annual
Tucson festival of books.

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I'm Lisa Bowden, the
director of Kore Press.

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And I'll be introducing
our lovely readers.

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We would like to thank the U
of A Poetry Center, Chax Press,

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Pog, Casa Libre, Sonora Review,
and the Tucson Poetry Festival

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for sponsoring this
year's Poetry Stage.

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This reading will
last about an hour.

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After the reading,
we'll do a little Q&A--

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we'll have about 10 minutes
for Q&A. So our first reader--

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and afterwards, books are
available for Sheila and Gerry

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to sign.

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Sheila's are over here,
and Gerry's are over here.

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So I'm going to introduce
both the readers at once,

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not to interrupt
the reading process.

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Gerry Connolly was born in
Greensburg, Pennsylvania

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in 1947.

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She has written three
collections of poetry,

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"Hand of the Wind" in 2009,
"Province of Fire" in 1998,

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and "Food for the
Winter" in 1990.

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She has won many prizes for
her work, including two NEA

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creative writing fellowships,
the Carolyn Kaiser

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prize from poetry Northwest,
a Maryland Arts Council

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fellowship, the Margaret
Bridgman Fellowship

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to Bread Loaf, and the National
Acrostic Poetry Competition

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prize.

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Her work appears in many
magazines and journals,

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including Poetry Chelsea, The
Gettysburg Review, The Georgia

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Review, and Shenandoah.

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WPFW's Writer's Almanac
broadcast her poem the summer

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I was 16.

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