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Adrian Matejka: Reading & Editorial Panel

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

7:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Undergraduate students from across the University are invited to join the Creative Writing Program at Basket Books & Art for a reading and panel discussion with Adrian Matejka, award-winning poet and editor of POETRY magazine. Adrian will join UHCWP faculty and co-director Kevin Prufer for an editorial panel following the reading. Seating is first-come, first-serve and preference will be given to UHCWP undergraduate students.

Adrian Matejka is the author of seven books, including Mixology (Penguin, 2009), a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series, and The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His most recent collection of poems, Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin, 2021), was a finalist for the UNT 2022 Rilke Prize and the 2022 Indian Authors Award. His first graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century was published in February 2023 by Liveright. A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Adrian currently lives in Chicago and is Editor of Poetry magazine.

Kevin Prufer’s newest books are The Fears (Copper Canyon Press, 2023) and Sleepaway: a Novel (Acre Books, 2024). Among his eight other books are Churches, which was named one of the best ten books of 2015 by The New York Times, and How He Loved Them, which was long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book from the American literary press. Prufer’s work appears widely in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Paris Review, and The New Republic, among others. He is Professor of English at The University of Houston, where he also directs The Unsung Masters Series, a book series devoted to rediscovering great, long forgotten authors. He also teaches at the Lesley University Low-Residency MFA Program.