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St. Bonaventure University will host a poetry reading by Orchid Tierney on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Athletics Hall of Fame, Reilly Center.

The program is free and open to the public and will include a question-and-answer session.

Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa, New Zealand, who now lives in Gambier, Ohio, where she is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College.

Tierney is the author of “a year of misreading the wildcats” (Operating System, 2019) and chapbooks “looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading” (Essay Press, 2023), “my Beatrice” (above/ground press, 2020), “ocean plastic” (BlazeVOX 2019), “blue doors” (Belladonna* Press), and “Gallipoli Diaries” (GaussPDF 2017), among others.

Her visit to St. Bonaventure is sponsored by the university’s Visiting Scholars Committee and the Department of English.

Dr. Joseph Hall, visiting assistant professor of English, encourages the campus and Olean-area communities to attend the reading.

“I invited Tierney because her poems on the natural world contain a rare mix of play, wonder, and acknowledgment of environmental crises. She’s also a dynamic performer and intellectual,” he said.

Tierney’s scholarship has appeared in Venti, SubStance, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She is also a co-editor of the “Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics” and senior editor at the Kenyon Review.

Learn more about the poet at .

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