Poets to read works through YSU program

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Two poets will read their works through a program by the Youngstown State University Poetry Center.

Claire Bateman and Nin Andrews will read their poems beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Ohio Room in Kilcawley Center at YSU.

Bateman’s books include “Coronology and Other Poems,” “The Bicycle Slow Race” and “At the Funeral of the Ether.”

She has received the New Millennium Poetry Prize as well as grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Surdna Foundation. She lives in Greenville, S.C.

Andrews is the author of several books, including “Southern Comfort,” “Spontaneous Breasts,” which won the Pearl Chapbook Contest, and “Any Kind of Excuse,” which won the Kent State University chapbook contest.

She is also the editor of a book of translations of the French poet Henri Michaux, titled “Someone Wants to Steal My Name.”