In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Writers’ Series at Lake Tahoe Community College will host poets Jan Beatty and Gayle Brandeis for a reading and conversation on April 17 at 8pm in LTCC’s Roberta Mason Library.

This event is free and open to the public. Books by both authors will be available for purchase.

Beatty’s fifth book, “Jackknife: New and Selected Poems,” was published in January 2017 by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Brandeis is the author of the memoir “The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide,” “The Selfless Bliss of the Body (Poems),” “Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write,” and the novels “My Life with the Lincolns, Delta Girls, Self Storage,” and “The Book of Dead Birds,” which won the Bellwether Prize of Fiction of Social Engagement. She teaches at Sierra Nevada College and at Antioch University Los Angeles.