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Speakeasy Reading Series with Dan Albergotti & Carmen Gimenez Smith
Venue: Pamplin Hall (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Carmen Giménez Smith, Dan Albergotti, Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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The Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and the Virginia Tech Department of English continue the Speakeasy Reading Series with Dan Albergotti and Carmen Gimenez Smith on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at Pamplin Room 30 on the campus of Virginia Tech.

Carmen Giménez Smith will be reading from her new book "Cruel Futures" at Virginia Tech alongside poet Dan Albergotti.

Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith is the daughter of South American immigrants. A CantoMundo fellow, she earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa's Writer Workshop. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009), the full-length collection Odalisque in Pieces (2009), the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (2010). Her 2013 collection Milk and Filth, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her next collection of poems Cruel Futures, will be a volume in the City Lights Spotlight Series in 2018. Be Recorder will be published by Graywolf Press in 2019.

Giménez Smith’s work explores issues affecting the lives of females, including Latina identity, and frequently references myth and memory. Wolf Schneider, writing in New Mexico Magazine, described Giménez Smith’s poetry as “waves of free verse, incantation and song.” With the publication of Odalisque in Pieces, Giménez Smith was featured as a New American Poet on the Poetry Society of America’s website.

She co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, an anthology of contemporary Latinx writing (Counterpath Press, 2014), and she is the current editor of The Nation's poetry section, alongside Stephanie Burt. Carmen serves as the publisher of Noemi Press, which has published over 40 full-length collections of poetry and fiction. Giménez Smith is the chair of the organizing committee for CantoMundo. She is a Professor of English at Virginia Tech,

Links:

• https://www.carmengimenezsmith.com
• https://www.twitter.com/lizitasmith

Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008) and Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), as well as a limited-edition chapbook, The Use of the World (Unicorn Press, 2013). His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Five Points, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and two editions of Pushcart Prize, as well as many other journals and anthologies. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

He is also an associate professor at Coastal Carolina University, where he teaches literature and writing courses and edits the online journal Waccamaw.

Link: https://www.coastal.edu/academics/facultyprofiles/humanities/english/danalbergotti/facultyprofile.php

Admission is free and all are welcome.

For more information, visit: http://vtcwmfa.tumblr.com/readings.