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March 27, 2014 — The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College will present Mark Statman and Joy Katz at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 3 in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. All events in the Single Voice Reading Series are free and open to the public.

Mark Statman is the author of two books of poetry, “A Map of the Winds” and “Tourist at a Miracle,” and two books of translations: “Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa” and, with Pablo Medina, Federico García Lorca’s “Poet in New York.” Statman is an associate professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. His work has been nominated for numerous prizes, including the Pushcart Prize and the National Translation Award.

Joy Katz is the author of three books of poetry: “Fabulae,” winner of the Crab Orchard award; “The Garden Room,” winner of Tupelo Press’s Snowbound Series prize; and “All You Do Is Perceive,” a Stalecher Selection at Four Way Books. She is also co-editor, with Kevin Prufer, of the acclaimed anthology “Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems.” Honors for her work include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and Stanford’s Wallace Stegner program. She is currently at work on “Frayed,” a book about race and voice, for which she received a 2013 Pittsburgh Foundation individual artist grant. She teaches in the MFA program at Chatham University.

For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Associate Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.