S141. Wesleyan University Press Poetry Reading

Room 101 H&I, Level 1
Saturday, April 11, 2015
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

A dynamic reading reflecting the breadth of Wesleyan University Press’s esteemed poetry series. These five poets represent diversity of age, race, aesthetics, and poetic voice, and are among the strongest voices in poetry today. Each engages his or her subject matter in distinct, unexpected ways through the use of language and imagery. Their work contemplates popular culture, history, ethics, race, and politics, as well as their personal experiences.


Participants

Moderator:

Heather Christle is the author of four poetry collections, including Heliopause, What Is Amazing, and The Trees The Trees, which won the Believer Poetry Award. She has taught poetry at Antioch College, Sarah Lawrence College, Emory University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Rae Armantrout's most recent book of poems is Itself. An earlier book, Versed, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems appear in numerous anthologies, and she teaches at the University of California, San Diego.

Sarah Blake is the author of Mr. West, an unauthorized lyric biography of Kanye West. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, the Threepenny Review, and others. She was awarded an NEA fellowship for poetry in 2013 and is assistant editor at Saturnalia Books and co-founder of Submittrs.

Fred Moten is author of In the Break, Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Undercommons (with Stefano Harney), The Feel Trio, and The Little Edges. He teaches at the University of California, Riverside.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Red Clay Suite. She has received a Witter Bynner Fellowship through the Library of Congress and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

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