Poetry@Tech Fall Immigrant / Refugee Poetry Reading
Thursday, Nov 07, 2019 7:30 PM
Location:
Kress Auditorium at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Paper Making
500 10th Street, NW
Atlanta, GA, 30309
Poetry@Tech presents its Fall Immigrant Refugee Poets Symposium Keynote event featuring Eduardo C. Corral, Kaveh Akbar, Mai Der Vang, and Carolina Ebeid.
About Eduardo C. Corral:
Eduardo C. Corral's first book, "Slow Lightning," won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2011. His second book, Guillotine, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2020. He's the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize and the Hodder Fellowship, both from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University.
About Kaveh Akbar:
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in the New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, the New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the author of two full-length collections: “Pilgrim Bell” (Graywolf, 2021) and “Calling a Wolf a Wolf” (Alice James, 2017). Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson.
About Mai Der Vang:
Mai Der Vang is the author of “Afterland” (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in Poetry, and a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She was also the co-editor of the anthology “How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology” (Heyday, 2011). In Fall 2019, she will teach in the Creative Writing MFA Program at Fresno State University.
About Carolina Ebeid:
Carolina Ebeid was born in West New York, NJ and is the author of “You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior” (Noemi Press). She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and a PhD from the University of Denver. Ebeid has won fellowships from CantoMundo, the Stadler Center for Poetry, the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. She teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver and helps edit poetry at The Rumpus.
