Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) and Janet Pocorobba (Nonfiction, June 2006, Program Director). This event will be held both in-person and over Zoom.

STEVEN CRAMER is the author of six poetry collections and has published poems and essays in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, Field, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New England Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry.  Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, he founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.  He writes poems and about poems.  If he could write more lucratively, he doesn’t know if he would, but he can’t so he doesn’t. Some of the poems from his latest collection, Listen, out in October 2020 from MadHat Press, are available online through his website.

JANET POCOROBBA writes memoir and essay and is currently writing a hybrid memoir about a co-op in a village in Vermont that incorporates personal memoir and social history. She is the author of The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me, and has published other work in lit mags, most recently “Stalking the Self: Finding a Point of View in Memoir,” Writers’ Digest Sept/Oct 2021.