Kaveh Akbar Poetry Reading

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Campus: 
Dayton
Stein Galleries, Creative Arts Center
Audience: 
Future Students
Current Students
Faculty
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Alumni
The public

The Wright State University Creative Writing Program & English Dept. present a reading and Q&A with poet Kaveh Akbar.

Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Times, The Nation, and elsewhere. His first book, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is just out with Alice James in the US and Penguin in the UK. He is also the author of the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches in the MFA program at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College.

For more information, please contact Christopher DeWeese at christopher.deweese@wright.edu

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