MKM Poetry Library
Events
UPCOMING
A Featured Reading with Alison C. Rollins
Presented by The Garry Fleming Poetry Series
In Collaboration with the Humanities Institute
February 3, 2024 6 p.m.
University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
MSC 3709
Alison C. Rollins was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers' Award and in 2020, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and the debut poetry collection, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A Featured Reading with Paul Hlava Ceballos
Presented by The Garry Fleming Poetry Series
In Collaboration with the Humanities Institute
February 18, 2024 6 p.m.
University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
Location TBD
Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He has fellowships from CantoMundo, Artist Trust, and the Poets House. He has been featured on the Poetry Magazine Podcast and Seattle’s the Stranger. He currently lives in Seattle, where he is the Poetry Editor of the Seattle Met and practices echocardiography.
A Featured Reading with Dana Levin
Presented by The Garry Fleming Poetry Series
In Collaboration with the Humanities Institute
March 31, 2024 6 p.m.
University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
Location TBD
Dana Levin’s new book of poetry is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), a New York Times Notable Book and Lannan Literary Selection. Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. A teacher of poetry for over thirty years, Levin has taught for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 2002 and currently serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.
POSTPONED
The First Annual Lecture on Poetics with Dr. Emily Griffiths Jones
Emily Griffiths Jones is an associate professor of English at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Right Romance: Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England and has published on Milton, Shakespeare, women writers, genre, and politics. Her current projects are on interactions between early modern literature and fan culture.
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Día de Los Muertos CelebrationNovember 1, 2023 Join us for a celebration of the dead during the month of October in the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library, CPR 301, where Professors Natalie Scenters-Zapico and José Ángel Maldonado will put together an altar for Día de los Muertos with photos of dead poets, symbolic offerings to them, and mementos. |
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A Lecture & Reading with Poet and Translator Taylor StricklandOctober 24, 2023 Taylor Strickland is a poet and translator from the US. He is the author of Commonplace Book, and Dastram / Delirium, a PBS Translation Choice. His work has appeared in New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. His poem ‘The Low Road’ was adapted by American composer, Andrew Kohn, and performed in Scotland. Along with filmmaker Olivia Booker and composer Fee Blumenthaler, he made the film poem Nine Whales, Tiree, which featured at Bloomsday, Chapel Hill, and Glasgow film festivals. He is a doctoral candidate in literary translation at the University of Glasgow, and he lives in Glasgow, Scotland, with his wife, Lauren. |
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Second Annual Día de los Muertos CelebrationNovember 1, 2024 Join us for coffee, pan dulce, and poetry as we celebrate the dead. |
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Book Launch for Ajibola Tolase's 2,000 BlacksNovember 4, 2024 Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He graduated from the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His chapbook, Koola Lobitos was published as a part of the New Generation African Poets Series edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani in 2021. His writing has appeared in LitHub, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is a former Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and has received a creative writing grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. He is the 2023-2024 Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Poetry at Colgate University. He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry in the Department of English at the University of South Florida. |
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A Featured Reading with Ocean Vuong
November 14, 2024 Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the author of the poetry collections, Time is a Mother, a finalist for the Griffin prize, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, and The Academy of American Poets. |