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Virginia Tech Visiting Writers Series: "What’s in a Word: A Poetry Workshop" (Online)
Venue: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Visiting Writers Series at Virginia Tech
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements, Class
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Virginia Tech Department of English continues the 2020/2021 Virginia Tech Visiting Writers Series featuring author Giovanni Singleton presenting the lecture "What’s in a Word: A Poetry Workshop" on Zoom on Thursday, March 18, 2021.

giovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011), which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space, silence, and omissions. Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon noted that singleton’s “poems are minimalist, while engaging a concern for the historical, the personal, the spiritual, as expanses… The buildup is slow, and culminates as play, in the clear space left as we literally watch an I disappear. Thereafter, we find the blank page again. And time to make another poem.”

singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts. Her honors and awards include fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Cave Canem, and the Napa Valley Writers Conference. Her work has been anthologized widely and appeared on the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts building. Coordinator for the Lunch Poems reading series at the University of California–Berkeley, singleton has taught at Saint Mary’s College, Naropa University, and New Mexico State University.

For more information on the poet, visit: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/giovanni-singleton.

In the face of the pandemic, the department has shifted its robust Visiting Writers Series to an even more engaging virtual opportunity this semester.

Following the lecture there will be a Q&A session.

The Zoom link for the event is: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/84712509402.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/department-of-english-visiting-writers-series-unites-authors-fro.html or email Matthew Vollmer at vollmer@vt.edu.