Rachel Eliza Griffiths is the author of four poetry collections: Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books, 2015); Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011), which was selected for the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award by the Black Caucus American Library Association; The Requited Distance (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2011); and Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books, 2010). Also a visual artist, she is the creator of Poets on Poetry (P.O.P.), a series of interviews that gathers more than fifty contemporary poets together in conversation to discuss poetry in relation to individual human experience and culture. Her honors include fellowships from Cave Canem, the Millay Colony for the Arts residency, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Soul Mountain, and Vermont Studio Center. Griffiths teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

This free public lecture is supported in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and held in conjunction with the Spring 2016 course “Embodying the Object: Writing with the Collection,” a collaboration between the Johnson Museum and the Creative Writing Program.

The Museum is open tonight until 8:00 PM!