UPDATE: This event has been cancelled. See Mason's statement on the coronavirus here and plans for coming weeks.
The Creative Writing Program's Spring Visiting Writers Series continues Tuesday, March 24, with poet Kaveh Akbar at 7:30 p.m. in the Fenwick Library Reading Room, Fenwick 2001, on Mason's Fairfax Campus.
Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and of the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic. Kaveh is the recipient of the Levis Reading Prize, Pushcart Prize, Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Kaveh is the founding editor of Divedapper, a home for interviews with major voices in contemporary poetry. With Sarah Kay and Claire Schwartz, he writes a weekly column for the Paris Review called "Poetry RX." Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere.
Also ahead this semester:
- MONDAY, APRIL 13: Chinelo Okparanta, fiction, and Mira Jacob, nonfiction
- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15: Martha Ronk, poetry
February 27, 2020
