Glasrud Reading: Margaret Benbow and Jane Medved
Thursday, March 15 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Livingston Lord Library Porch
The two most recently published winners of New Rivers Press’s Many Voices Project will be visiting campus to read from their new collections. Jane Medved’s Deep Calls to Deep and Margaret Benbow’s Boy Into Panther.
“Taking its title from Psalm 42, Deep Calls to Deep explores the nexus between the depths of biblical history and the depths of the self, and the twin powers of faith and doubt that drive them both. Building from a masterful sequence exploring the legacies of Herod to a final richly lyrical sequence, Deep Calls to Deep becomes richer with multiple readings.” —Leslie Adrienne Miller, author of Y and The Resurrection Trade
“Writing in heightened, magical prose reminiscent of Marquez and Toni Morrison, Margaret Benbow has produced the liveliest collection of tales you’re likely to read this year, or in any year. Boy into Panther is bursting with incident and populated with an incredible cast of artists, priests, tailors, gypsies, new immigrants, cuckolded mushroom-hunters, and grieving widows—people of sorrow and persistence, all of them fighting for love, or lacking that, a scrap of dignity.” —Lin Enger, author of The High Divide