Please come hear award winning poet Henk Rossouw read from his work, the second event in the spring 2024 Cardin Reading Series!
The reading will be Wednesday, April 3, at 1 p.m., in The Greenberg Center in Harry Jack Gray.
Henk Rossouw hails from Cape Town, South Africa. His book Xamissa (Fordham University Press, 2018) won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize, and his chapbook The Water Archives was included in the box set New-Generation African Poets: Tano (Akashic Books, 2018). His poems have appeared widely, including in POETRY, The Massachusetts Review, Boston Review, and The Paris Review. He co-directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
To learn more about Mr. Rossouw, please check out his website.
Click here for examples of his work.
This reading will open with University of Hartford senior Alexa Schwartz, who was chosen as one of five student poets statewide to be on the Connecticut Poetry Circuit student tour. Ms. Schwartz will present her winning poems.
The event will be followed by a Q&A. Mr. Rossouw’s book will be available for purchase.
This event is free and open to the public.
Please contact Benjamin Grossberg (x4944) at grossberg@hartford.edu if you have any questions.