Wells Addington
An Evening with Danez Smith
Ferguson Student Center Theater 751 Campus Dr W, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDanez Smith is a black, queer, poz writer & performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of boy, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and Don’t Call Us Dead, a finalist for the National Book Award. Danez’s third collection, “Homie,” will be published by Graywolf in Spring 2020.…
Danez Smith Master Class
ten Hoor 111Poeming in Code, Singing To Our Beloveds This presentation and workshop seeks to explore the idea of audience while debunking the myths that our audience is either is everyone or no one. We will hone in on what tools writers use to signal to their audiences that the poem is to/for them, how we add love, empathy, and intimacy into our writing, and how we can be more in use our work as gathering grounds and private lines of communication.
An Evening with Alexander Chee
Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesAlexander Chee is a Korean-American writer, poet, reviewer, and essayist who writes on subjects such as race, gender, and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also an activist for the AIDS advocacy organization, ACT UP. Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An…
Tyehimba Jess Reading
Gorgas Library 205 (Camellia Room) 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN…
Bankhead Memorial Lecture with Tyehimba Jess
Moody Music Building Concert Hall 810 2nd Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesPoetry’s Musical Bloodline: A Sociohistorical Soundtrack In this lecture, Tyehimba Jess explores the historic connections between music and poetry, with particular interest in music of the African diaspora. Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution…
Masterclass with Tessa Fontaine and Jessica Lee Richardson
Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTwo Publishing Paths Diverge in a Wood (But are still BFF's! Roll Tide!) XFAs Tessa Fontaine and Jessica Lee Richardson discuss their differing experiences publishing their first books. Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, a New York Times Editors' Choice, finalist for the Utah Book Award, and best…
An Evening with Tessa Fontaine and Jessica Lee Richardson
Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, a New York Times Editors' Choice, finalist for the Utah Book Award, and best book of 2018 from Southern Living, Amazon Editors', Refinery29, PopMatters, and the New York Post. Other writing can be found in The New York Times, Glamour, The…
Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series
Please join us for our first Pure Products reading of the semester featuring UA faculty members Yolanda Manora and Jessica Kidd, MFA Candidate Jeremy Burke, and undergraduate Creative Writing student Aundralesha Wordlow.
Dorothy Allison Virtual Reading
Webinar AL, United StatesRegister to receive a link to the Zoom event here. Dorothy Allison is a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet, and a happily born-again Californian. She is best known for Trash: Short Stories (Firebrand, 1988), which won two Lambda Literary Awards and the American Library Association Prize for Lesbian and Gay…
Dorothy Allison Virtual Lecture
Webinar AL, United StatesRegister to receive a link to the Zoom event here. Dorothy Allison is a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet, and a happily born-again Californian. She is best known for Trash: Short Stories (Firebrand, 1988), which won two Lambda Literary Awards and the American Library Association Prize for Lesbian and Gay…