GVSU Writers Series: Poet L.S. Klatt craft talk and reading
When
Monday, February 20, 2012
6:00 PM
Where
University Club, DeVos Center, Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Category
Literary Arts
Description
L. S. Klatt is a 2003 graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia. He currently teaches American literature and creative writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids.
Recent poems of his have appeared or will appear in Best American Poetry 2011, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Hotel Amerika, jubilat, Sycamore Review, West Branch, The Cincinnati Review, Parthenon West Review, and Verse Daily.
His first book, Interloper, won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2009. His second collection, Cloud of Ink, won the 2010 Iowa Poetry Prize and was published in 2011 by the University of Iowa Press.
Klatt will give a craft talk from 6-6:30 p.m. followed by a reading from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Caitlin Horrocks, assistant professor of writing, at (616) 331-3411.