Fourth Sundays: Poetry at the Claremont Library is excited to present our October 2021 featured readers, Sandra Lim and Marcyn Del Clements.
Sandra Lim is the author of three poetry collections: most recently The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021), and The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). She has received the Levis Reading Prize, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lives in Cambridge, MA.
Marcyn Del Clements has lived in Claremont since 1975. With her husband Richard, she has raised and released two beautiful daughters; raised and buried two rambunctious black labs. Now Marcy lives in her house alone with fifty some koi and goldfish in her swimming pond. Over time she has seen some 780 works in print. But Shinrin-Yoku, her first book, has taken thirty years for the birthing. The book contains all the prose and poems to appear since the early 90s in Appalachia Magazine, and was published by their poetry editor, Parkman Howe.
Please note that Fourth Sundays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines for in person gatherings; masks and distancing will be required.