Thursday, March 26th, 2026
4:30pm
St. Luke's Chapel
We hope you’ll join the Department of English and Creative Writing in welcoming poet Michael Pontacoloni to campus, where he’ll read from Anadromous Fish of the Farmington River, a book that explores the intersection of environmental degradation, personal identity, serial murder, and migratory fish. Set in central Connecticut, Anadromous Fish of the Farmington River shows us contemporary environmental conditions alongside historical violence – including the events that inspired Arsenic and Old Lace. Dr. Pontacoloni holds a PhD from The University of Mississippi and an MFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His poems have received support from the Vermont Studio Center and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and have won the Oran Robert Perry Burke Prize for outstanding work from The Southern Review. He is the Director of Creative Writing Pedagogy in the MFA program at Indiana University in Bloomington.
