Jennifer Militello presents Identifying the Pathogen
Schedule
Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
45 S Main St, Concord, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03301 | Concord, NH
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https://gibsonsbookstore.com/event/identifying-pathogenNH Poet Laureate, Jennifer Militello, joins us to present her new book, Identifying the Pathogen: An Inquiry.
Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries, autopsies, and experiments, Identifying the Pathogen tells the story of a scientist on an obsessive quest to document an ailment that resists classification. The book considers the body in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is woven through with the story of Anna Morandi Manzolini—an eighteenth-century Italian anatomist and artist who struggled to support a husband suffering from depression—as well as several accounts detailing a ruptured appendix, a splintered cello, and an ill-fated rock climbing excursion.
About the Author
Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen, named a finalist for the 2024 FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books, 2019), as well as four previous books of poetry. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry London, and The Poetry Review (UK). Militello has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently teaches in the MFA program at New England College.
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