F264. Make It New(s): A Reading and Conversation with Jeffrey Brown, Ted Kooser, and Connie Wanek, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press
Friday, April 10, 2015
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Participants
Jeffrey Brown
Ted Kooser is a two-time US Poet Laureate, a Pulitzer Prize winner, professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the author of eleven full-length collections of poetry, including Delights and Shadows and Splitting an Order. As Poet Laureate he started the American Life in Poetry project, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and the Nation. He has received two NEA fellowships in poetry, the Stanley Kunitz Prize, and a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council.
Connie Wanek is the author of three books of poetry, including On Speaking Terms. She is a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress, named in 2006 by US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. She is also an editor of To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present.