Award-Winning Poet, Travis Mossotti at the Walnut Creek Library on Oct. 6th

Award-Winning Poet, Travis Mossotti:

Walnut Creek Library
1644 N. Broadway, Walnut Creek
Monday, October 6th, 2014
6:30pm | Free

On Monday, October 6 at 6:30 p.m., award-winning poet Travis Mossotti will stop at the Walnut Creek Library on his Bay Area poetry tour, reading from his latest collection, “Field Study.” This collection, funded in part by the Sustainable Arts Foundation in San Francisco, is steeped in Central Coast history and focuses on conservation efforts for mountain lions and current redwood logging activity going on in the area. Join us for a unique evening of ecology and poetry!

Travis Mossotti was awarded the 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award by contest judge Garrison Keillor for his first collection of poems, About the Dead (USU Press, 2011), and his chapbook My Life as an Island was published by Moon City Press in 2013. His second full-length collection Field Study won the 2013 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize and was published in 2014 with Bona Fide Books. Mossotti is currently the Poet-in-Residence at the Endangered Wolf Center, and his poetry has been published in recent issues of the Antioch Review, Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.