Writers@Grinnell: Lynn Powell

Award-winning poet Lynn Powell will read from her work and discuss writing on Thursday, Nov. 16, as part of the Writers@Grinnell series at Grinnell College. The reading will begin at 8 p.m. in  Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.

In addition, Powell, who teaches in the creative writing program at Oberlin College, will lead a roundtable discussion at 4:15 p.m. in Rosenfield Center, Room 209. The discussion will focus on teaching imaginative writing, specifically the work of the Oberlin Writers in the Schools program, which Powell directs. This nationally recognized program engages Oberlin students in teaching creative writing in local schools.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Powell is the author of three books of poetry, including Season of the Second Thought, winner of the 2017 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Her poems have been published in many journals, including Poetry, the Georgia Review, and the Paris Review, and anthologized in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day and The Norton Introduction to Literature.

Her book of nonfiction, Framing Innocence, won the Studs and Ida Terkel Award from the New Press. Her other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.