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2019-2020 Visiting Writer Series with a Reading from Author Kyle Dargan
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Kyle Dargan
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presents the 2019-2020 Visiting Writer Series with a Reading from Author Kyle Dargan on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 in the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech.

Kyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP, 2018), which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections, Honest Engine (2015), Logorrhea Dementia (2010), Bouquet of Hungers (2007) and The Listening (2003), were all published by the University of Georgia Press.

For his work, he has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. Dargan has partnered with the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He's worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations, such as 826DC, Writopia Lab, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program.

He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. Originally from Newark, New Jersey, Dargan is a graduate of Saint Benedict's Prep, The University of Virginia and Indiana University.

Links:

• http://www.american-boi.com
• https://www.twitter.com/Free_KGD

Admission is free and all are welcome.

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For more information, visit: https://www.calendar.vt.edu/main.php?view=event&eventid=1571086309722 or https://vtcwmfa.tumblr.com/readings or https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaTechMFA/.