Poets Anne Colwell and Meredith Hadaway to read at Irish Eyes May 25

Two of the region’s very best poets, Anne Colwell and Meredith Davies Hadaway, will read from their work at Irish Eyes Restaurant in Milton  at 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 25.

Colwell, a poet and fiction writer, is an associate professor of Engish and creative writing at the University of Delaware. She has published two books of poems, "Believing Their Shadows" and "Mother’s Maiden Name" as well as a book about Elizabeth Bishop, "Inscrutable Houses."

She received the Established Artist in Fiction Fellowship and the Established Artist in Poetry Fellowship from the Delaware State Arts Council, as well as a Mid-Atlantic Arts Fellowship to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and three work-study fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She is the poetry editor of the Delmarva Review and is a guest editor of Delaware Poetry Review.

Hadaway is the author of three collections of poetry: "At The Narrows," winner of the 2015 Delmarva Book Prize for Creative Writing; "The River is a Reason"; and "Fishing Secrets of the Dead." She has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and multiple Pushcart nominations. She holds a master of fine arts degree in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Hadaway is a former Rose O’Neill Writer-in-Residence at Washington College, where she taught English and creative writing in addition to serving as vice president for communications and marketing. Read some selections at www.depoetry.com/poets/201206/meredith_davies_hadaway.html.