BRUNSWICK – Poets Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar will give a public reading at Bowdoin College at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Donald B. MacMillan House, 5 McKeen St. The reading is free and open to the public.

Tina Chang is the author of “Half-Lit Houses.” Her poems have appeared in American Poet, Indiana Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, and Sonora Review, and have been anthologized in “Identity Lessons,” “Poetry Nation,” “Asian American Literature,” “Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation,” and “Poetry 30: Poets in Their Thirties.”

Ravi Shankar is poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University. His first book of poems, “Instrumentality,” was published in 2004 by Word Press.

His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in such places as The Paris Review, Poets & Writers, Time Out New York, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Descant, LIT, Crowd, The Cortland Review, Catamaran, The Indiana Review, Western Humanities Review, The Iowa Review and The AWP Writer’s Chronicle.

“Half-Lit Houses” and “Instrumentality” are available at the Bowdoin College Bookstore, and will be on sale at the event.