GVSU Poetry Night APPROVED INT 100/201!

Thursday, October 24, 2024
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Off Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

Occurring annually on or around the GVSU Pew Campus in Grand Rapids, GVSU Poetry Night has a tradition of bringing some of the most celebrated and distinguished poets to enlighten and entertain. One of the largest poetry reading series in the state thanks to the generosity of donors and the university, Poetry Night events are always free and open to the public. This year, as part of the GVSU Arts Celebration, we are excited to have renowned poet and essayist Paisley Rekdal joining us for a poetry reading and conversation.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction, and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale, Appropriate: A Provocation, and, most recently, West: A Translation, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is the editor and creator of the digital archive projects West, Mapping Literary Utah, and Mapping Salt Lake City. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and various state arts council awards. The former Utah poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah where she directs the American West Center.

This event is free and open to the public.

Location Information

Wealthy Theatre
1130 Wealthy Street SE
Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Contact Information

Todd Kaneko, Writing Department

email: [email protected]

phone: 616-306-8064

Hosting Department, Organization, or Business

CLAS, Writing Department

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This event was added to the calendar by Todd Kaneko (kanekot@gvsu.edu) on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 and was last updated on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 10:38 a.m.