What: Angie Estes, 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry and winner of this year's Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, will hold a Q&A and book reading at the University of North Texas as part of the UNT Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the Creative Writing program of the Department of English.
When: Q&A: 4 p.m., Reading and book signing: 8 p.m. March 24 (Tuesday)
Where: Q&A: Forum on the first floor of the Willis Library, 1506 W. Highland St., Denton. Reading and book signing: Room 180 of the Business Leadership Building, 1307 W. Highland St., Denton.
Cost: Free
Contact: Lisa Vining at 940-369-5981 or lisa.vining@unt.edu.
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Angie Estes, an American poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist, will visit the University of North Texas March 24 (Tuesday) to read from her latest book of poetry, "Enchantée."The event is part of UNT's Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the Creative Writing progam of the Department of English.
Estes will hold a Q&A at 4 p.m. in the Forum on the first floor of UNT's Willis Library. A reading and book signing will follow at 8 p.m. in Room 180 of the Business Leadership Building. The Barnes & Noble UNT Bookstore will be selling Estes' work at the reading.
"Enchantée" was just named the 2015 winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award presented by from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Estes will receive the award April 16. "Enchantée" was also a finalist for the 2014 UNT Rilke Prize, which recognizes a book that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision written by a mid-career poet, and the winner of the 2014 Audre Lorde Prize for Lesbian Poetry from the Publishing Triangle.
Estes has written four other books of poetry. Her first book, "The Uses of Passion," (1995) was the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize. She next wrote "Voice-Over," (2002) which won the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize and the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. "Chez Nous" (2005) followed, and her fourth book, "Tryst," (2009) was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares and TriQuarterly. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
In addition, she has received fellowships, grants and residencies from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the California Arts Council, the Macdowell Colony and the Ohio Arts Council.
Estes graduated from the University of Oregon with both her master's and doctoral degrees in English. She has been a professor at California Polytechnic State University, Oberlin College in Ohio, and The Ohio State University. She currently serves as a faculty member of the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program at Ashland University in Ohio.