Hampshire College

Two of Hampshire College’s creative writing professors, Paul Jenkins and Heather Madden, will read from their poetry on April 1 at 5 p.m. in the Writing Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Paul Jenkins grew up in northern Iowa and went to graduate school in Seattle. Jenkins has taught, prior to Hampshire, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Our Lady of the Elms, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, as a Fulbright Lecturer. He was also briefly an archivist before writing a socio-economic history of Greenfield, MA.

Jenkins’s three books of poems are Forget the Sky, Radio Tooth, and Six Small Fires, with two more in the works. Individual poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Paris Review, Malahat Review, Gettysburg Review, Agni Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other publications. He served as poetry editor of The Massachusetts Review for 26 years.

Heather M. Madden grew up in central Pennsylvania and has lived, studied, and taught in northern Appalachia, New Mexico, and Indiana. She is managing editor of Salamander and a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Hampshire College. Her work has appeared in a number of small journals, including Good Foot and The Tiny. Madden's manuscript in progress is (tentatively) titled WAKE.