A Poetry Reading with Owen Lewis, Harriet Shenkman, and Dorsía Smith Silva

Owen Lewis is the author of four collections of poetry and three chapbooks, most recently A Prayer of Six Wings. His prior collection, Field Light, was a “Must Read” selection of the New England Book Awards. Honors include the 2024 E.E.Cummings Prize, the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. At Columbia University he is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and teaches Narrative Medicine. (www.owenlewispoet.com)

Harriet Shenkman earned a Ph.D. from Fordham University, an M.Ed. from Duke University, and is a professor emerita at City University of New York. Her poetry awards include the Women’s National Book Association Annual Contest and the Women Who Write International Poetry Contest. Her work has appeared in over 20 literary journals, including Westchester Review, The Alexandria Quarterly, Comstock Review, The…