Rachel Richardson Poetry Reading
by RACHEL RICHARDSON
On Thursday, 19 November 2009, Rachel Richardson read at the Weatherspoon Museum on Spring Garden Street in Greensboro, NC. Her reading was part of Will Read For Food, an annual benefit for Greensboro charities. The event was sponsored by the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro. Fiction writer Michael Parker organized the event and introduced the readers.
Rachel Richardson’s poems have appeared in the New England Review, Southern Review, Slate, Ninth Letter, Memorious, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. A recent Stegner Fellow, she has led poetry workshops in prisons, elementary schools, and universities, and currently teaches at UNC Chapel Hill.
Richardson read from unpublished and recently published poems. Read one of her poems, “Portrait of Britney Spears, Kentwood,Louisiana, 1996,” or listen to her entire reading, in mp3 format.
Rachel Richardson’s poems have appeared in the New England Review, Southern Review, Slate, Ninth Letter, Memorious, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. A recent Stegner Fellow, she has led poetry workshops in prisons, elementary schools, and universities, and currently teaches at UNC Chapel Hill.
Richardson read from unpublished and recently published poems. Read one of her poems, “Portrait of Britney Spears, Kentwood,Louisiana, 1996,” or listen to her entire reading, in mp3 format.