Hosted by Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, and the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute.

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Friday, June 25, 2021, 8 to 9 p.m. Eastern, via Zoom

Free and Open to the Public.

American Sign Language interpretation, live captioning, and image descriptions will be provided.

Other accommodations requests can be made (by June 18, 2021) by contacting oipo@law.syr.edu.

Ona Gritz will read prose from her forthcoming collection, Present Imperfect: Essays, as well as engage in discussion with Zoom participants. This event will highlight and celebrate Ona’s creative work as well as her contributions as Wordgathering’s Gatherer’s Blog Editor. Ona Gritz’s books include Geode, a Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, Brevity, and elsewhere. Recent honors include two Notable Mentions in Best American Essays and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project.

Questions? Contact us at oipo@law.syr.edu