MFA Visiting Writers Series: Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Thursday October 22nd, 2020, 7:00pm
Free and open to the public. Registration Link:  https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n2BDDZ2jRQyArTyQglZhuQ
 
The English Department’s MFA in Creative Writing in the College of Arts & Sciences sponsors the series. Given the health risks associated with live readings, organizers are taking this mainstay of campus literary life online.
 
“This shows our determination to continue the high calibre and diverse guests our Visiting Writers Series has become known for, in a virtual format,” said Frank X Walker, the new director of Creative Writing. “We’ll also be adding master classes and workshops to ensure a lively literary scene at UK despite COVID-19.”
 
The events will be held via Zoom webinar with a reading and question-and-answer session from participants.

 
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK)[3] and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.
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Evie Shockley

Evie Shockley

Thursday September 10th, 2020, 2:00pm

Sponsored in collaboration with The Kentucky Women Writers Conference) A Discussion: Poetry of Curiosity.  Shockley will conduct a one-hour discussion on the role of curiosity in poetry. This session is only open to UKY graduate and undergraduate creative writing students. Registration Link:  https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VZbFb-gxSkyPRpxXQ0aewA 

Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, poet Evie Shockley is the author of three books of poetry: semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017), which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize; the new black (Wesleyan, 2011), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2005). She is also the author of a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa, 2011). Among Shockley’s honors are the Stephen Henderson Award, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the American Council of Learned Societies. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, Shockley received the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. She was awarded a residency at the Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers in 2003. Two of her poems were displayed in the Biko 30/30 exhibit, a commemoration of the life and work of anti-apartheid activist Steven Biko, which toured South Africa in 2007.

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