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A Reading by Arthur Sze, Meg Day, and Kemi Alabi, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets
Friday, March 25, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Join the Academy of American Poets for a reading by Academy Chancellor Emeritus Arthur Sze and award-winning poets Meg Day and Kemi Alabi. Executive Director Jennifer Benka will introduce the event. ASL interpretation will be provided. Founded in 1934, the Academy of American Poets is the nation’s leading champion of poets and poetry, with supporters in all fifty states. This event will be prerecorded and available on the virtual conference platform, in addition to being screened onsite. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.
Participants
Jen Benka is the executive director of the Academy of American Poets. She worked previously as the managing director of Poets & Writers and for 826 National. She is the author of Pinko and A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers. Jen holds an MFA from the New School.
Arthur Sze is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems, Sight Lines, Compass Rose, The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, and The Redshifting Web. He received the 2021 Shelley Memorial Award and the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry.
Meg Day is the 2015–2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level. Day is assistant professor of English and creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College.
Kemi Alabi (they/them) is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, April 2022), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Alabi is coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press, 2021).
