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Virtual Event: Milkweed Poets

The Book Catapult is excited to be hosting three acclaimed poets from publisher Milkweed Editions for a virtual event via Zoom on Tuesday, December 8 at 5pm. Allison Adair, Benjamin Garcia, and Adam Clay will be reading their poetry and having a conversation with renowned local poet Kazim Ali. The event is free and open to all.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89968797385

Allison Adair: Originally from central Pennsylvania, Allison Adair now lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and GrubStreet. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry ReviewArts & LettersBest American PoetryBest New PoetsKenyon Review OnlineNorth American Review, and ZYZZYVA, among other journals. Allison is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in Mid-American Review’s Fineline Competition. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize-winning collection, The Clearing.

Benjamin Garcia: Garcia's first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry ReviewBest New Poets 2018, CrazyhorseKenyon ReviewThe Missouri Review, and New England Review. Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

 

 

Adam Clay: is the author of four collections of poems: To Make Room for the Sea, StrangerA Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World, and The Wash. His poems have appeared in Tin HousePloughsharesDenver QuarterlyGeorgia ReviewCrazyhorseBennington Review, and jubilat, and online at Poetry Daily and the Poem-a-Day project of the Academy of American Poets. He is editor of Mississippi Review, a coeditor of Typo Magazine, and a book review editor for Kenyon Review. He teaches in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.

 

Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including several volumes of poetry, novels, and translations. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water.

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Date: 12/08/2020
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Place:

Virtual Event
San Diego, CA
United States