Award-winning poet John Murillo will give a reading to students on February 18th as part of the 2020-2021 Lamont Poetry Series. “Murillo is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie, finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award, and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, the J Howard and Barbara MJ Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2017, 2019, and 2020. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.” (Source: JohnMurillo.com)
English 420 students and other classes will be reading Murillo’s poetry in preparation for his virtual visit.
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“On Metaphor” (audio)– John Murillo reads “On Metaphor” from his poetry collection Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, published in March 2020 by Four Way Books. Recorded by Poets & Writers magazine.
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Poets House Presents: John Murillo (video) – In this installment of the Poets House Presents video series, John Murillo reads two poems from his latest poetry collection, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books, 2020). Recorded in his home in East Flatbush, Brooklyn on September 2020.
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Bowery Poetry – John Murillo Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry Release (video) –John Murillo Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry Release. Facebook live Event for Bowery Poetry, June 2020. Hosted by Mahogany L. Browne. With special guests Aracelis Girmay, Willie Perdomo, Patrick Rosal, Nicole Sealey, and Patricia Smith.
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