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Poetry Reading by Paisley Rekdal
Thursday, February 13, 2025 2:30pm to 4pm
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Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and seven collections of poetry, including Animal Eye, winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize; Nightingale, winner of the 2020 Washington State Book Award for Poetry; and West: A Translation, which was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award in Poetry and won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Mountains & Plains Bookseller’s “Reading the West” Poetry Book Award. Her newest works of nonfiction include a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam; and Appropriate: A Provocation. She guest edited Best American Poetry 2020, and she has just published a pedagogy book: Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically (W.W. Norton, 2024). Rekdal was the Poet Laureate of Utah from 2017 to 2023, and she is currently Professor of English at the University of Utah.
Professor Rekdal's reading is co-sponsored by Language & Literature, the Center for Asian Studies, and the Center for Translation Studies.
Location
Karl Hoblitzelle Hall (HH), 2.706
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
Department
- Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, Language & Literature
Contact Information
- Nomi Stone
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