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Trying for Fire: A Tribute to & Celebration of Tim Seibles
Friday, March 25, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Born in Philadelphia, Tim Seibles is a renowned performer, professor, mentor and poet, reckoning with race, sensuality, belonging and the Divine. For more than thirty years, he taught at Old Dominion University, but many poems and much of his National Book Award-nominated Fast Animal is set in the City of Brotherly Love. He served as Virginia’s poet laureate from 2016–18. The panelists will celebrate his contributions to the world of literature, and afterward, Tim Seibles will share his work.
Participants
Remica L. Bingham-Risher is a Cave Canem fellow and an Affrilachian Poet. She has published three books of poems, Conversion, What We Ask of Flesh, and Starlight & Error. She is director of quality enhancement plan initiatives at Old Dominion University.
Tyehimba Jess's Olio won the Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Society of Midland Authors Poetry Award, and recognition from the BCALA. His first book, Leadbelly, won the National Poetry Series. A NEA, Whiting, Guggenheim, and Lannan Foundation Award winner, he teaches at College of Staten Island.
Patricia Smith's books are Incendiary Art, a 2018 Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah; and Blood Dazzler, a 2008 National Book Award finalist. She is a Guggenheim fellow (2014), two-time Pushcart winner, and a professor at CUNY and in Sierra Nevada's MFA.
Alan King is the author of Point Blank and Drift. Of Point Blank, US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo said, these "poems are not pop and flash, rather more like a slow dance with someone you’re going to love forever." King is also a journalist, videographer, Cave Canem Fellow, and Stonecoast MFA graduate.
Lynne Thompson
