Tomás Q. Morín & Adam Giannelli -- Canaan Meetinghouse Reading Series

The beloved Canaan Meetinghouse Reading Series is back, with another lineup of barnstorming readings by acclaimed authors on Thursdays throughout the month of July! Readings are hosted by the Canaan Town Library and take place at the historic Canaan Meetinghouse, on the corner of Canaan Street and Apple Blossom Road, across from the Canaan Street Beach. Refreshments will be served. On July 16, we welcome Tomás Q. Morín and Adam Giannelli!Tomás Q. Morín’s novel Cat Love is forthcoming from Pantheon, which will be followed by the poetry collection My Favorite Things from Knopf. He is also the author of the poetry collections Machete, Patient Zero, and A Larger Country, which was the winner of the APR/Honickman Book Prize. He has published two memoirs, Where Are You From: Letters to My Son and Let Me Count the Ways, recipient of the Nonfiction Book Award of The Writer’s League of Texas. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Rice University. Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012), which was shortlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and the editor of High Lonesome (Oberlin College Press, 2006), a collection of critical essays on Charles Wright. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, New Criterion, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from several institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Program, James Merrill House, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Yaddo, and MacDowell. He has taught at Oberlin College, Hamilton College, Colby College, and Purdue University.