Nick Flynn Joins Featured Reader Line-Up
Watch Nick Flynn read at the 2008 Poetry Festival.
Massachusetts poet Nick Flynn will be one of three Featured Readers at Lowell High School Freshman Academy on Friday, October 10 at 7 p.m. Flynn will read alongside poets Rhina Espaillat and Regie Gibson, who round out the evening’s line-up.
Nick Flynn’s “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, “Some Ether” (Graywolf, 2000), and “Blind Huber” (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review. His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator on the film “Darwin’s Nightmare,” which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
Visit Nick Flynn at www.nickflynn.org.









