Green Line Cafe

THE GREEN LINE CAFE PRESENTS:

Catherine Staples & Amy Thatcher
Poetry Readings & Interviews

TUESDAY, March 16, 7 PM
HOSTED BY LEONARD GONTAREK & LISA GRUNBERGER

Amy Thatcher, a Librarian in the Literature Department for the Free Library of Philadelphia, is the curator of the Library’s Monday Poets Reading Series. Amy has studied with Molly Peacock, Matthew Rohrer, the late Rachel Wetzsteon, and Brenda Shaughnessy. She lives in Philadelphia.

Catherine Staples’ poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Third Coast, Commonweal, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and others; new poems are forthcoming at Blackbird and Valparaiso. She was selected by Amy Clampitt for the University of Pennsylvania’s William Carlos Williams Award and is the recipient of two APR Distinguished Poets’ Residencies. Her manuscript, Still-Life Breathing, has been a finalist for Lost Horse Press’ Idaho Prize, Northeastern’s Morse, Eastern Washington University’s Spokane, and Ohio State University’s The Journal Award. She teaches humanities seminars and poetry workshops in the Honors program at Villanova University and lives in Devon, Pennsylvania with her husband and children.

Info: 215.808.9507
This Event Is Free