Leeanne Quinn & Open Mic

Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Leeanne Quinn followed by Open Mic!

7:45pm - Sign up for Open Mic on Zoom chat

8:00pm - Leeanne Quinn reading

8:15pm - Open Mic begins

9:10pm - Announcements and Farewells

Leeanne Quinn’s debut collection of poetry, Before You (2012) was highly commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry 2013. Her second collection, Some Lives, was published in 2020 and noted as a Book of the Year by The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. Her poems have been published in journals and magazines such as Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales, The Stinging Fly, PN Review, Banshee, Cyphers, and The Irish Times, and anthologised in The Forward Book of Poetry 2013, Windharp: Poems of Ireland Since 1916, and Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry.  With Joseph Woods, she co-edited Romance Options, an anthology of contemporary love poems from Ireland (2022). She holds a PhD in American Literature from Trinity College Dublin, and has taught at Trinity College Dublin and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. 

We are grateful for the support of The Arts Council and Limerick City & County Council.

Zoom closed-captions will be made available for this event.

Participation is limited to the first 100 guests to join.