Lost in Thought magazine, CSI’s literary and visual arts publication, is excited to offer two readings in person on campus. These events are open to the public.

Poet Gabriel Fried and Creative Nonfiction writer Diana Goestch will read from their work and take part in a Q&A between 2:30pm and 3:30pm on Tuesday, Apr. 1. This event will be held in the CSI Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts (Building 1P, Room 112). 

On Wednesday, Apr. 2 between 6:30pm and 7:30pm, poet Trace Peterson will be sharing her poetry and scholarly brilliance. This event takes place in the Library Theatre (IL-103).

We look forward to seeing you there.

ABOUT THESE WRITERS:

Gabriel Fried is a poet and editor. He is the author of three collections of poetry, The Children Are Reading (Four Way Books, 2017) and Making the New Lamb Take (Sarabande Books, 2007), named a Best Book of 2007 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, The Paris Review, and other journals and magazines. He is the longtime Poetry Editor at Persea Books, an independently owned, literary publishing house based in New York City. His newest book of poems is No Small Thing, which just came out this month.

Diana Goetsch is an American poet and essayist, author of eight poetry collections, the acclaimed memoir This Body I Wore, and dozens of features and columns. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, LitHub, Tricycle, The American Scholar, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo, and the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship at The New School.

Trace Peterson has been working at the forefront of trans and queer poetry and poetics for the past two decades. Author of The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia Books, forthcoming 2025) and Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2019), Peterson also co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013). Formerly the N.E.H. Post-Doctoral Fellow in Poetics at Emory’s Fox Center for the Humanities, she is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at UConn.

By the Staff at Lost in Thought