The Austin Community College District welcomes poet Bill Berkson for a reading from his prize-winning collection “Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems” 7 p.m. Thursday, October 21 at the ACC Rio Grande Campus Gallery Theater, 1212 Rio Grande.

“Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems” (Coffee House Press, $22) brings together more than 40 years of Berkson’s poetry.

Berkson is the 2009 recipient of the Balcones Poetry Prize from the Balcones Center for Creative Writing at Austin Community College. The $1,000 annual award recognizes an outstanding book of poetry published during the year.

The reading is free and open to the public. For more information please call 223.3226 or email John Herndon.