The long-running Clearly Meant poetry & \; interview series welcomes Berkeley poet Rachel Richardson. Richardson w ill read her poetry\, then sit for an interview with host Glenn Ingersoll\ , followed by an audience discussion. \;
\nRachel Richardson is the author of Smother (Norton\, 2025) and two previous books of p oetry\, Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave. Her writing ap pears The New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The Yale Review\, at the Poetry Foundation online\, and elsewhere. Rachel was a 2024-25 Distinguished Visiting Writer in the MFA program at St. Mary's College\, a nd she leads regular poetry workshops for the community through Left Margi n LIT\, a literary arts center in Berkeley. After a couple of decades wand ering the South and East\, she lives in North Berkeley\, half a mile from where she was born. \;
\nBerkeley Public Library collection incl udes Smother and Copperhead.
\nA \;free bookle t of Rachel Richardson poems will be available for a month before the read ing at all branches of the library. Copies will also be available at the e vent. \;
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