Wayland Library Will Welcome Award-Winning Poets Sunday

The information below was supplied by Wayland Public Library Director Ann Knight.

On Sunday, April 21, at 3 p.m., poets Jill McDonough and David Rivard will appear in the Wayland Library’s Raytheon Room to read from their recent work.

Rivard is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Otherwise Elsewhere. His poems and essays appear in the American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Poetry London, and other magazines. In 2006, Rivard was awarded the Hardison Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, in recognition of both his writing and teaching. Among his other awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Civitella Ranieri, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is the former Poetry Editor at the Harvard Review. Rivard lives in Cambridge, with his wife and daughter, and teaches in the University of New Hampshire MFA Program in Writing.

Pushcart Prize winner McDonough’s books of poems include Habeas Corpus and Where You Live. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Library of Congress, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years.  Her work appears in The Nation, The New Republic, Slate, and Best American Poetry 2011. She teaches at UMass-Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the online writing program at the Fine Arts Work Center.