GVSU Writers Series: Joe Wilkins, 4 p.m. craft talk; 7:30 p.m. reading
When
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
4:00 PM
Where
2215/16 Kirkhof Center, Allendale Campus
Category
Literary Arts
Description
Wilkins is the author of a memoir-in-fragments, The Mountain and the Fathers (Counterpoint 2012) and a collection of poems, Killing the Murnion Dogs (Black Lawrence Press 2011). His work has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Harvard Review, the Sun, Orion, and Slate, among other magazines and literary journals.
A 2010 National Magazine Award finalist and 2010 PEN Center USA Award in Journalism finalist, Wilkins is the recipient of the Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center, which is presented to a promising new journalist or essayist whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern with social justice. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter on the north Iowa prairie, where he teaches writing at Waldorf College.
Wilkins will give a craft talk on creative nonfiction and poetry from 4-5:15 p.m. Later, in the same location, he will give a public reading from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.