Critically acclaimed poets Sabrina Orah Mark and Michael Dumanis will read from and discuss their works at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in the Macon State College Auditorium in the Learning Support Building off Ivey Drive. This event is free and open to the public. Call Dr. Amy Berke at (478) 471-5788 for more information.

Brooklyn native Sabrina Orah Mark now lives in Athens, GA, where she teaches at Agnes Scott College and the University of Georgia. Her first book of poetry, The Babies, has earned much acclaim and won the 2004 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Mark’s work has also appeared in American Poet, The Canary, Conduit, The Indiana Review, and other journals. Mark currently is working on her second book, Tsim Tsum, which will be published by Saturnalia Books later this year.

Michael Dumanis, who was born in the Soviet Union and lived there until 1981 when his parents were granted political asylum in the U.S., now lives in Cleveland, Ohio. He teaches at Cleveland State University and serves as the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Dumanis’ first book, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, was co-written with fellow poet Cate Marvin. His second book, My Soviet Union: Poems, won the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry.