Join three prestigious Atlanta poets, Victoria Chang, E. Hughes, and Lauren K. Watel, for an evening of dynamic readings of award-winning original poetry. A small reception will be held before the program at 7p.m.. Tea and pastries will be available to enjoy during the reading, available on a first come, first served basis. This program is presented by The Art Section, Emory Libraries, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. The Poets:
Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems, With My Back to the World (2024), received the Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry. A selection of her other publications include The Trees Witness Everything (2022), named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and The Guardian, and OBIT (2020), named a Time Magazine Must-Read Book, recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature, and is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech, and Director of Poetry@Tech. E. Hughes is the author of the poetry collection Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water (2024). They received their MFA in poetry and MA in English Literature from the Litowitz Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in Guernica Magazine, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast Magazine, Colorado Review, and The Rumpus—among others. They are a Cave Canem fellow and were a semifinalist in the 2022 and 2023 92Y Discovery Contest, and long-listed for the 2021 Granum Fellowship Prize. Currently, Hughes is a PhD student in Philosophy at Emory University. Lauren K. Watel’s debut book, a collection of prose poetry entitled BOOK of POTIONS, was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky, and will be published in February 2025 by Sarabande Books. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have been published in Literary Imagination, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and World Literature Today, to name only a few. A native of Dallas, Texas, she lives in Decatur, Georgia. |