John Hodgen is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College, and also teaches at Mount Wachusett Community College and the Worcester Art Museum. He is the author of HEAVEN AND EARTH HOLDING COMPANY (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010); GRACE (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006, winner of the 2005 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry); IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE (Lynx House Press Poetry Series, 1993, winner of the 1993 Bluestem Award from Emporia State University in Kansas); and BREAD WITHOUT SORROW (Lynx House Press /Eastern Washington University Press, 2001, winner of the 2002 Balcones Poetry Prize). Presented in partnership with the FIU Writers on the Bay Series.