Poetry Reading: Claire Donato

Join us for a reading to celebrate Digital Studies Fellow Claire Donato’s second book, The Second Body. About The Second Body, Ross Gay says: “These poems are thick with music and formally rangy and sort of amazing for the things they actually did to me, among which: hurt; puzzle; astonish; delight. Which is to say—they moved me.” 

Claire Donato is the author of Burial (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013), a not-novel novel, and The Second Body (Poor Claudia, 2016), a collection of poems. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry Society of America, BOMB, BOAAT, Fanzine, and Ninth Letter. At Babycastles Gallery in Manhattan, she co-curates WordHack, a monthly series focused on digital language art. Currently, she is working on a collection of interconnected short stories about love, death, vegetarian cooking and the cloud called Gravity and Grace, The Chicken and the Egg, or: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, along with an accompanying series of vegan new media (in)edible language sculptures called Material Studies . She currently lives in Brooklyn, is a 2016-2017 Digital Studies Center Fellow at Rutgers University—Camden, and teaches in the Architecture and BFA Writing Programs at Pratt Institute.