Community invited to poet Brenda Hillman reading, craft talk 

Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, kicks off its 11th year with American poet Brenda Hillman at noon on October 12 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. The poetry reading and craft talk is free and open to the public. 

Hillman is the author of ten collections of poetry: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar, Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry; and her most recent Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days. In 2016 she was named Academy of American Poets Chancellor. Among other awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.