The Department of English will host a reading by Michael Blumenthal Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Milano Reading Room of the Downtown Library and on Zoom. A book signing will follow.
For more information and the Zoom link, contact Mark Brazaitis, English professor and director of the Creative Writing program, at Mark.Brazaitis@mail.wvu.edu.
“We would love to see a large in-person audience for Michael’s reading, which is sure to be terrific,” Brazaitis said. “But we understand that some people are still wary about venturing out, and we’re glad to include them as well.”
Blumenthal is the former director of Creative Writing at Harvard and a graduate of Cornell Law School. His poetry collections include Don't Die (2021), No Hurry (2012) and Dusty Angel (1999).
He is also the author of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers, a collection of essays from Central Europe; When History Enters the House; and the novel Weinstock Among the Dying, which won Hadassah Magazine’s Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction.
“We are lucky to be hosting a poet of such renown—of such skill and humor and grace,” Brazaitis said. “It will be a wonderful occasion.”