Poetry gives us permission to rebel, to misbehave, to speak truth to power and to imagine futures better than the ones we've been presented with. With wit, craft, and profound courage, these panelists harness language to celebrate small victories and teach us the joys of artistic disobedience.
| Where: | Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 16, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Main Floor (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Poetry |
| Moderator: | Logan Phillips |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Max McCauslin and John Smith |
Alison Hawthorne Deming’s books include "Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower" and the poetry collection "Stairway to Heaven." The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and Walt Whitman Award, she is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona....
Perry Janes is the author of the poetry collection "Find Me When You're Ready" from Northwestern University Press. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Electric Literature, Poem-a-Day, Zyzzyva, Threepenny Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere....
Farid Matuk is the author of "Moon Mirrored Indivisible," "Redolent," "The Real Horse," "This Is a Nice Neighborhood," and "My Daughter La Chola." They are also the translator from the Spanish of "The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist" by the Peruvian poet Tilsa Otta....
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