• Image - Writers from Rutgers featuring Poet Benjamin Grossman
  • Event Date: April 9, 2026
  • Event Start Time: 4:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 5:00 PM
  • Event Location: Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Second Floor, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, Second Floor
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  • Event Type: Writers From Rutgers
  • Semester: 2026 SPRING

Join us for a reading with Benjamin Grossberg, facilitated by Assistant Professor Joanna Fuhrman. 

Benjamin S. Grossberg’s collections of poetry include My Husband Would (U. of Tampa Press, 2020), winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (U. of Tampa Press, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. His novel, The Spring before Obergefell (U of Nebraska Press, 2024), was selected by Percival Everett for the AWP's James Alan McPherson Prize and also won a Lambda Literary Award. He has two new poetry collections, When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like (Cavankerry) and Detail from an Illustration of Paradise (Two Sylvias Press), forthcoming this fall. Ben is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.