IAWA New York & Boston Present:

Jay Parini & Rose Solari

Saturday, June 25, 2022 (on Zoom)

6-8 PM EST   Open Mic begins at 6–“doors” close at 6:15!

Admission is free register with link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdeqtqDIuE927-9ldERE2ti44S1p24SGN

Jay Parini is the author of more than thirty books, including the novels Benjamin’s Crossing, The Passages of H.M., The Apprentice Lover, The Damascus Road, and The Last Station, which was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer.

His six volumes of poetry include New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015. He has written biographies of Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Faulkner, and Gore Vidal. He has also written a biographic study of Jesus and numerous other nonfiction works, including Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America. His recent memoir, which he calls a “novelistic memoir,” was Borges and Me, a recollection of his travels through the highlands of Scotland in 1971 with Jorge Luis Borges.

Rose Solari is the author of three collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather; the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, in which she also performed, and a novel, A Secret Woman. She has lectured and taught writing workshops at many institutions, including Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing; the University of Maryland, College Park; St. John’s College, Annapolis; and the Centre for Creative Writing at Oxford University in Oxford, England. In 2010, she co-founded Alan Squire Publishing, a small press with big ideas.