Poetry Night

“An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Nikky Finney and B.H. Fairchild”

Join us to celebrate National Art and Humanities Month

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 7 P.M.
L.V. EBERHARD CENTER, 2ND FLOOR
ROBERT C. PEW GRAND RAPIDS CAMPUS

Reading followed by book signing and reception

Hear two extraordinary American poets read and discuss their work.

Nikky Finney is the author of four books of poetry, and her most recent, Head Off & Split, is the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. Previous volumes include The World is Round, Rice, and On Wings Made of Gauze. She is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Kentucky.

B.H. Fairchild is the author of Usher, his sixth book of poetry, and Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress.

He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. Fairchild also authored Such Holy Song, a scholarly study of William Blake. In 2001, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize for consistent excellence over a long career.

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Poetry Night