Join us for a reading and conversation with Assistant Teaching Professor Joanna Furhman in conversation with alumnus Benjamin S. Grossberg
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Benjamin S. Grossberg’s collections of poetry include My Husband Would (U. of Tampa Press, 2020), winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (U. of Tampa Press, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. His novel, The Spring before Obergefell (U of Nebraska Press, 2024), was selected by Percival Everett for the AWP's James Alan McPherson Prize and also won a Lambda Literary Award. He has two new poetry collections, When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like (Cavankerry) and Detail from an Illustration of Paradise (Two Sylvias Press), forthcoming this fall. Ben is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.