Speakeasy Reading Series with Poet Tess Taylor
Venue: Newman Library (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Tess Taylor, Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
The Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and the Virginia Tech Department of English continue the Speakeasy Reading Series with Poet Tess Taylor on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Newman Library Multipurpose Room on the campus of Virginia Tech.

Tess Taylor is a poet and journalist and is currently the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered.

Her chapbook, "The Misremembered World", was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book, "The Forage House", “stunning” and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book, "Work & Days", was called “our moment’s Georgic” by critic Stephanie Burt and named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by The New York Times.

Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. Taylor chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle and has taught at UC Berkeley, St. Mary’s College, and Whittier College. She was most recently a Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast.

Links:

• https://www.tess-taylor.com/
• https://www.twitter.com/Tessathon

The evening will also include the presentation of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Co-sponsored by the Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series.

For more information, visit: http://www.news.liberalarts.vt.edu/event/speakeasy-reading-series-tess-taylor-poetry-reading/ or http://vtcwmfa.tumblr.com/readings.

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