POET JENNIFER MILITELLO TO READ

Please join us on March 21st at 11 am as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire Jennifer Militello reads from her new book:

IDENTIFYING THE PATHOGEN

Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries, autopsies, and experiments, "Identifying the Pathogen" tells the story of a scientist on an obsessive quest to document an ailment that resists classification. The book considers the body in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, woven through with the story of Anna Morandi Manzolini—an eighteenth-century Italian anatomist and artist who struggled to support a husband suffering from depression—as well as several essays detailing accounts of a ruptured appendix, a splintered cello, and an ill-fated rock climbing excursion.

Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of six books, including the hybrid collection "Identifying the Pathogen" (Tupelo Press, 2026), named a finalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, the memoir "Knock Wood", winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, and "The Pact" (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), called “emotionally resonant” by Publishers Weekly and “an incantatory homage to love” by the Times Literary Supplement. Militello’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Poetry. She is a Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at New England College.

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• This April, 12th April, 11:00 am, POET DAVID BANACH TO READ in Peterborough

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