Is Taylor Swift teaching us literature?
Yes, Taylor Swift is a reader—but does that make her songwriting literature? Some pretty big-name poets seem to think so. Poet Elly Bookman (Love Sick Century) and editor and poet Kristie Frederick Daugherty (Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift) will wax poetic about all things Swiftie with Dr. Anthony Cuda, Associate Head of English at UNC Greensboro and a 20th-century literature scholar.

Join us at Green Block + Studios on April 10th to hear readings from Elly Bookman and Claire Jimenez

42 Miles Press published Elly Bookman's Love Sick Century this year. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,The American Poetry Review, among other top-notch literary magazines.

Claire Jimenez is the author of the short story collection Staten Island Stories and What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez. She is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina.

Please join the Department of English and 42 Miles Press in celebrating and welcoming poet Elly Bookman, who will read select poems on the IU South Bend campus!

UNCG alum Elly Bookman will return to campus to give a poetry reading and mark the publication of her first collection, Love Sick Century (42 Miles Press 2024).

Presented with A Cappella Books

A reading from Elly Bookman’s new collection Love Sick Century, with introductory remarks from Josie Duffy Rice.