Poetry Reading in Syracuse, NY

May 26, 2023 7pm EST at Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, New York

Each year, the Downtown Writers Center hosts more than 20 authors for free readings at the Downtown YMCA. This reading is both in-person and online.

Cynthia Hogue’s tenth collection of poetry is instead, it is dark (Red Hen Press, 2023). Her ekphrastic Covid chapbook is entitled Contain (Tram Editions 2022), and her new collaborative translation from the French of Nicole Brossard is Distantly (Omnidawn 2022). Among her honors are two NEA Fellowships, the Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and residency fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Anderson Center. Hogue was the inaugural Marshall Chair in Poetry at Arizona State University, and served as Guest Editor for Poem-a-Day for September (2022).