Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator/writer with degrees in geology and literature, he’s received the Pulitzer Prize, Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, Guggenheim and US Artists Foundations. A signal voice for environmental poetics, Gander often writes about human and ecological intimacies. His latest book, focused on the desert, "Mojave Ghost: A Novel Poem."

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Awards: Guggenheim Fellow, Pulitzer Prize, Pushcart Prize, Best Translated Book Award, Whiting Writers Award, Witter Bynner Library of Congress Fellowship, United States Artists Rockefeller Award

The Poetics of Place

From the pastoral to the postmodern — from Paterson, New Jersey, to the Sonoran Desert — poets have always sought to explore the reflexive relationship between person and place. Today our authors will discuss home, displacement, and the interplay between place and imagination.

Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  
Sat, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Poetry
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store, Main Floor (following presentation)  

Panelists: Forrest Gander, Farid Matuk, Gabriel Palacios
Moderator: Gabriel Dozal

SW Books of the Year - Uncharted Territory

The desert Southwest is much-discussed but often misunderstood. The four writers on this panel have each traveled deep into the landscape both physically and emotionally, from the Grand Canyon to Lake Powell, the San Andreas Fault to the wilds outside Tucson. They'll share how the region informed their sense of self and their writing

UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110)  
Sun, Mar 16, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Multigenre
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  

Panelists: Zoe Bossiere, Kevin Fedarko, Forrest Gander, Zak Podmore
Moderator: Mark Athitakis

Books:

Mojave Ghost

Poetry
New Directions Publishing Corporation
October 2024
ISBN 9780811237956
80 pages

Twice Alive

An Ecology of Intimacies
Poetry
New Directions Books
January 2021
ISBN 9780811230292
83 pages