Michael Fallon, senior lecturer of English, will be a featured poet at the ninth annual CityLit Festival. Presented by CityLit Project and Pratt Library, the festival takes place on Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Enoch Pratt Central Library. Fallon’s reading will take place at 12 p.m. in the library’s Poe Room. The festival features panels, readings, book signings, the Maryland Humanities Council’s annual “Letters About Literature” ceremony, and a Literary Marketplace.
Fallon’s recent works have appeared in The American Scholar, The Antietam Review, Sin Fronteras, The Attic, and The Oyez Review. His book Since You have No Body won the 2011 Plan B Press Poetry Chapbook Competition.
Joining Fallon at the festival will be Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, Guggenheim Foundation president and bestselling poet Edward Hirsch, winner of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Tom Lux and others.