Poet Rachel Richardson will give an open workshop Wednesday Nov. 5 at 4:30 at the covered pavilion behind Stirlings. Later the same evening, she will read her work; the reading is Wednesday Nov. 5 at 7:00 PM in the Torian Room. 

Rachel Richardson is the author of three books of poetry, Smother (W. W. Norton & Co., 2025), and Hundred-Year Wave (2016) and Copperhead (2011), both selections in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. Her poetry and prose appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, at the Poetry Foundation, on The Slowdown, and elsewhere.