Poetry Potluck With Andrew Grace
Date: 10/25/2025
Time: 02:00 pm-04:00 pm
Location: Brown Family Environmental Center, 9781 Laymon Road, Gambier, OH 43022
Organizer: Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County
Cost: Free
Contact and more info:
knoxwrites1@gmail.com
https://www.knox.net/
About the event:
This fall’s Poetry Potluck features acclaimed poet Andrew Grace, debuting his new poetry collection, A
Brief History of the Midwest. Andy will read from his work, then lead participants through a generative
poetry workshop. Attendees should bring something to write with, or on. The workshop is open to writers
age 18+ and we’ll have a few complimentary copies of A Brief History of the Midwest available to
attendees on a first come, first-served basis.
Andrew Grace has published three books of poems: A Belonging Field (Salt Publishing), Shadeland (Ohio
State University Press) and SANCTA (Ahsahta/Foundlings). His work has appeared in the New Yorker,
Poetry, Boston Review and New Criterion. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he is a Senior Editor at the
Kenyon Review and teaches at Kenyon College. His fourth collection A Brief History of the Midwest was
published by Black Lawrence Press in May 2025.
For more information about the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County’s Literary and Writing
programs, visit www.knox.net, email knoxwrites1@gmail.com or call (740) 392-BOOK extension 8259.