Event Spotlight: David Gewanter with Special Guest Emily Cinquemani

Emily Cinquemani, former GR poetry editor and MFA Writing Program alumna, will be reading with visiting poet David Gewanter this Thursday evening, October 10 at 7PM at Scuppernong Books. This evening of poetry is free and open to the public.

Emily Cinquemani’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Southern Indiana Review, Nashville Review, 32 Poems, Cherry Tree, and Meridian. She teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

David Gewanter is author of four books of poetry: Fort Necessity (2018), War Bird (2009), The Sleep of Reason (2003), and In the Belly (1997), all published by the University of Chicago Press; and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Faber & Faber, 2003). He earned a B.A. in Intellectual History from the University of Michigan, an M.A. and Ph.D. in English at U.C. Berkeley, and then ran writing programs at Harvard. His work appears in Threepenny Review, Poetry Magazine, Boston Review, TriQuarterly, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Slate.com, and elsewhere. He is currently a professor of English at Georgetown University.