Plutzik Reading Series - Catherine Barnett

Name: Plutzik Reading Series - Catherine Barnett
Start: 2025-09-16T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-16T18:00:00-04:00
Location: River Campus Libraries

Schedule

Tue Sep 16 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

River Campus Libraries | Rochester, NY

Join us for the 63rd season of the Plutzik Reading Series in the Welles-Brown room, where we will be joined by Catherine Barnett! She will read from her recent works, answer questions and sign copies of her books, which will be available for purchase.
Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (selected by Publishers Weekly as a "Best Books 2024" and included in NPR's "2024: Books We Love"); Human Hours (Believer Book Award, New York Times "Best Poetry of 2018" selection); The Game of Boxes (James Laughlin Award); and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award). A Guggenheim and Civitella Ranieri fellow, she received a 2022 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Whiting Award, among other recognitions. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, The NY Review of Books, The Yale Review, The Nation, Harper’s, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in NYU's MFA Program in Creative Writing and works as an independent editor.
The Plutzik Reading Series is one of the most prestigious and longest-running reading series in the country. It is always open to the public and offered free of charge.