Join this week's featured author, Jan Beatty, in our virtual book club series, “Authors and Anecdotes”, as she discusses her book, The Body Wars, which is scheduled to be published in September, 2020.  The Body Wars is a collection of vital poems of dimension, of both psychic and literal travel, of the elasticity of truth and struggle, of the daily nature of desire that brings us to our knees—then shotguns us back to the heart’s center.

Click here to be directed to the University of Pittsburgh Press website to learn more about The Body Wars. Purchasing options for the book is available on this site, and it can also be purchased at any independent bookstore of your choice. (While we encourage you to read the books ahead of time it is not a requirement to participate in the series.)

Join us as we not only discuss her new poetry book, but also dive into Beatty's personal literature collection, her favorite readings, and participate in a live Q&A!

5 random attendees to this book club session will receive a free copy of The Body Wars, courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh Press!

About the author: Jan Beatty is professor of English and director of creative writing at Carlow University, director of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops, and distinguished writer in residence of the Carlow University MFA program. Her fifth book, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, won the 2018 Paterson Prize, and her memoir, American Bastard, won the 2019 Red Hen Nonfiction Award.