Novelist Corinne Demas and poet Richard Michelson will team up for a reading from their recent books: Corinne’s new novel, Daughters, and Rich’s poems about daughters in Sleeping as Fast As I Can, and previous collections. 

They’ll talk about their different approaches to the subject of “daughters” and the ways fiction and poetry also overlap, as well as the role of autobiography.  

This event will also be livestreamed on the Forbes Library YouTube channel. Click here to view. 

About the authors: 

Richard Michelson’s books have been listed among the top ten of the year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and The New Yorker, and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon. He has received a National Jewish Book Award and two Gold Medals from the Association of Jewish Libraries. A former two-term Poet Laureate of Northampton, Michelson hosts Northampton Poetry Radio and is the owner of R. Michelson Galleries.

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-nine books, including seven novels (Daughters, The Road Towards Home, The Writing Circle), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968), a poetry collection, and numerous books for children (The Littlest Matryoshka, Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Perfect Tree). She is a Professor Emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College.