LISTEN TO CHRISTINE’S READING AT PRAIRIE LIGHTS:
“Live from Prairie Lights” is an internationally known readings series, which features some of the best up-and-coming and well-established authors & poets from all over the globe. Presented before a live audience and streamed over the world wide web, this long running series brings the spoken word from the bookstore to the masses.
Most readings begin @ 7:00 p.m. Arrive early to assure yourself a seat.
Christine Hemp will read from her first collection of poetry, That Fall. In Christine Hemp’s powerful debut collection, we find poem after poem pulled in two directions: upward with mercurial and transformative grace, and downward toward the earth, the relational root, “the buried seam that joins all things.” — Bruce Bond
Christine Hemp earned her B.A. in Humanities from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon; she holds a Masters degree in English from Middlebury College in Vermont with study at Lincoln College, Oxford, England.