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English professor Noah Zanella will read with Shannon Tharp for the first session in a biannual series of North Central virtual readings at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 26, presented by Friends of Lorine Niedecker.

Shannon Tharp is the author of “The Cost of Walking” (Skysill Press, 2011) and “Vertigo in Spring” (The Cultural Society, 2013). She’s also co-editor with Sommer Browning of “Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship” (Library Juice Press, 2018). Her poems and essays have appeared in Blazing Stadium, The Brooklyn Rail, Coldfront Magazine, The RS 500, SALT, Typo, and The Volta, among others. She lives in Denver, Colorado, where she’s a librarian at the University of Denver.

Prof. Zanella is a Chicago-based writer and musician. He works as a professor at �ǿմ�ý, an editor at MASKS literary magazine, and a teaching artist at Hugo House. He’s also a cofounder of Gourd magazine, which will release its first issue in the fall. He credits Lorine Niedecker‘s writing for teaching him how to write poems, and he reads her collected work every summer.

Sponsoring Department, Office, or Organization:

English Department

For more information, contact:

Rick Meier: rmeier@carthage.edu