Tracie Morris is a poet and vocalist who works in multiple media. She has performed extensively around the world. Her sound installations have been presented at numerous institutions such as the Drawing Center, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument presented by Dia Art Foundation, Jamaica Center […]
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Gabriel Blackwell is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Madeleine E., a commonplace book that arranges passages from critics considering Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, along with fragments of memoir and fiction. The Fanzine has called the book “creative criticism of the highest […]
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Chris Abani’s books of fiction include The Secret History of Las Vegas, Song For Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, Graceland, and Masters of the Board. His poetry collections are Sanctificum, There Are No Names for Red, Feed Me The Sun: Collected Long Poems, Hands Washing Water, […]
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Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra is the author of My Documents, which was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and three previous novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai. His books have been translated into more than ten languages and have received […]
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Anne Waldman is a prolific poet and performer, creating radical hybrid forms for the long poem, both serial and narrative, as with Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, Manatee/Humanity, and Gossamurmur (Penguin Poets). She is the author of the magnum opus, The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the […]
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Ben Lerner, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, is reading on Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. in the Porter Byrum Welcome Center at Wake Forest University. Lerner is a novelist, poet, and critic. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press, 2011), won The Believer Book […]
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Join us for a reading by Bhanu Kapil in the Hanes Art Gallery at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 28. Kapil teaches at Naropa University and in Goddard College’s M.F.A. program. She is the author of five books of poetry/prose: Ban en Banlieu (forthcoming Dec. 2014, […]
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 4:30 p.m.Tribble Hall, Room C216Reception follows. Raised in Philadelphia, poet Jacqueline Osherow received her BA from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and her PhD from Princeton University. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hoopoe’s Crown (2005). Her […]
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