Four Poets Featured This Month by UNH Arts@Night Series

April 14, 2014

WEST HAVEN, CONN. –The University of New Haven Arts@UNH program will
feature four poets this month.

The series, sponsored by the UNH Department for English Arts, is free
and open to the public and includes readings by poets Rachel Harper and Joseph
Ross on Wednesday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. in Bartels Hall meeting room A&B,
and readings by author Tim Parrish and poet Arisa White on Wednesday, April 23
at 6:30 p.m. in Bartels Hall, Alumni Lounge.

Harper’s first novel, “Brass Ankle Blues,” was included in Target’s
Breakout Books Program in 2006. Her poems and short fiction have been published
in The Carolina Review, Chicago Review, African American Review and the Prairie
Schooner. She received her master’s degree from the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles.

Ross has read her work around the country, including at the Folger
Shakespeare Library in the District of Columbia and the Pratt Library in
Baltimore.  He was born in Pomona, Calif.
where he studied English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles before
attending the University of Notre Dame, where he received a master’s of
divinity degree.

Parrish, a professor of English at Southern Connecticut State
University, is the author of seven books, including “The Jumper” and “Red Stick
Man.” Parrish grew up in Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University,
where he received a bachelor’s degree in secondary English education and a
master’s in secondary reading education. He also received a master’s in fine
arts in creative writing from the University of Alabama.

White,
a native New Yorker, has been published widely and is featured on the recording
“WORD” with the Jessica Jones Quartet. She is the author of the poetry
chapbooks “Disposition for Shininess” and “Post Pardon” and co-author of “Her
Kinds,” a blog. White received a master’s in fine arts from the University of
Massachusetts.

For more information, contact Randall
Horton assistant professor of English at rhorton@newhaven.edu.

The University of New
Haven is a private, top-tier comprehensive institution recognized as a national
leader in experiential education. Founded in 1920 the University enrolls approximately 1,800 graduate students
and more than 4,600 undergraduates.

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