An Evening with Poet Li-Young Lee

An Evening with Poet Li-Young Lee: April 8, 2021 @ 7pm

Li-Young Lee is the author of five books of poetry, including his newest collection, The Undressing which is forthcoming in 2018. His earlier collections are Behind My Eyes; Book of My Nights; Rose, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; The City in Which I Love You, the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and will be reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

 

Event co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the Gaines Center

Check out his Poetry Foundation feature for poems and more information: 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/li-young-lee

(registration link below)

https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H4mH8o1PTrChwbSjjpKr9A

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An Evening with Madeline Ffitch:

An Evening with Madeline Ffitch: March 25, 2021 @ 7pm

Madeline Ffitch writes and organizes in Appalachian Ohio. She was a founding member of the punk theater company, The Missoula Oblongata, and is the author of the story collection, Valparaiso, Round the Horn. Madeline has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and at the MacDowell Colony. She is the author of Stay and Fight from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Check out more of her writings on her website: 

https://www.madelineffitch.com/stories

(registration link below)

https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0LIsHzHFQeCdyU65kh8jVQ

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UK's 26th Annual Black Women's Conference

The theme for UKY's 2021 Black Women's Conference is “Literature, Digital Media, and the Afrofuture.”



Dates: Feb 26th and 27th, 2021.



Register for all events here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/university-of-kentucky-26th-annual-black-w…

Feb 26:

10:30am:  "The Future of Black Speculative Literature" Panel

6:00pm:  Keynote address:  Nalo Hopkinson



Feb 27:

3:00pm:  Kishonna Gray and Regina Hamilton play "Hair Nah" and "Bad Hair".  Community Gaming Event on Twitch

4:00pm:  Keynote discussion with Momo Pixel, moderated by Kishonna Gray and Regina Hamilton

 

 

 


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Extended Office Hours with Dr. Regina Hamilton

Hosted by Dr. Regina Hamilton of UK's Department of English and African American and Africana Studies program, Extended Office Hours invites faculty into the studio to discuss their paths to teaching. Sometimes the stories are personal, sometimes they're critical, but they're always important. In this first season of the show, episodes focus on what drew each faculty member to where they are today.

MFA Open House for Potential Applicants

ZOOM HOUR WITH UKY MFA FACULTY & CURRENT & FORMER UK MFA STUDENTS

Meet our faculty, learn about the program, ask questions about the application process, and/or just have fun chatting with all of us! There will be music and literary trivia games!

Feel free to drop in anytime during the session.

Register here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SpdWSyCaTu6L6g_OjTtziw

 


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