Molly Peacock, poet and creative nonfiction writer, will perform a reading of her works at 7 p.m. on May 4 in room 308 of the Library and Liberal Arts Center on JCC's Cattaraugus County Campus.

The program, free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the JCC Cattaraugus County campus program committee, the Olean Public Library, and the Katharine Jackson Carnahan Endowment for the Humanities.

Ms. Peacock, a Buffalo native, earned degrees at Harpur College and The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She has authored six books of poetry, including her latest, The Second Blush. She also wrote and performed in a one-woman staged monologue in poems, “The Shimmering Verge.”

One of the creators of Poetry in Motion on subways and buses throughout North America, Ms. Peacock is interested in how young adults connect to poetry through her work with the College Board and Advanced Placement English. She is spending the 2009-2009 academic year in New York City on a fellowship from the Leo Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Ms. Peacock’s works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Best of the Best American Poetry.

For more information contact Charlotte Martines-Cappellini, 716.376.7553.