| Join Honors Alum Christina Thatcher next Thursday, April 3 for a day of events! Loungin’ with Alumni: meet with Christina, talk about her experience winning a Marshall Scholarship, studying/living in the UK, and working as a poet and lecturer. We’ll have pizza for lunch! 12:30 – 1:30pm in the Huddle |
| Register via Handshake for Loungin’ with Alumni here! |
| Poetry Reading and Q&A: join us in celebrating National Poetry Month by welcoming poets Christina Thatcher and Abigail Parry as they read from their collections Breaking a Mare and I Think We’re Alone Now. These award-winning poets will share work which explores silence, girlhood, intimacy and failure as well as horses, pop music, beetles and rodeo. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. 3:30 – 4:30pm in the Lounge |
| RSVP for the poetry reading here! |
| About the Alum: Christina Thatcher grew up between a farm and a ranch house in Bucks County. She completed a BSc in Secondary English Literature Education (with minors in Anthropology and Sociology) as an Honors student at Temple University. Christina won a Marshall Scholarship to study in the UK and now lectures at Cardiff University. Her poetry and short stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including Ambit, Poetry Wales, The North and The Poetry Review. A winner of the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award, Christina has published three collections with Parthian Books: More than you were (2017), How to Carry Fire (2020) and Breaking a Mare (2025). She has toured internationally, reading her work in the UK, USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Switzerland and Romania. Christina lives in Wales with her gardener husband, Rich, and their cat, Miso. |
 |
Loungin’ with Alumni and Poetry Reading – April 3
