DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Prize-winning poet Dana Levin will start the spring Visiting Writers Series with a reading and book signing Feb. 7 (Thursday) at the University of North Texas. The series, which is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, will also include nationally renowned writer Tiphanie Yanique.
The readings will take place at UNT's University Union, located one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets (1155 Union Circle). All of the readings are free and open to the public.
Visiting Writers:
Dana Levin
Feb. 7 (Thursday)
4 p.m., Q & A
Room 316 of UNT’s Language Building, located on the southwest corner of Avenue B and West Hickory Street (108 Avenue A).
8 p.m., Reading and book signing
Golden Eagle Suite on the third level of UNT's University Union, located one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets (1155 Union Circle).
Dana Levin’s first book, In the Surgical Theatre , was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/ Honickman first book prize and went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day , in 2005. The Los Angeles Times says of her work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they surprise us." Her poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including APR, Poetry, and The Paris Review. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, Levin’s most recent book is Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), which was noted for 2011 year-end honors by The New Yorker , the San Francisco Chronicle , and Library Journal. A teacher of poetry for more than 20 years, she is co-chairman of the Creative Writing and Literature Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.
For more information, visit Dana Levin's website.
Tiphanie Yanique
Feb. 28 (Thursday)
4 p.m., Q & A
Room 316 of UNT’s Language Building, located on the southwest corner of Avenue B and West Hickory Street (108 Avenue A).
8 p.m., Reading and book signing
Silver Eagle Suite on the second level of UNT's University Union, located one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets (1155 Union Circle).
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony , published by Graywolf Press. Her writing has won the 2011 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Fiction, Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of the sixteen cultural figures to watch out for and by the National Book Foundation as one of the 2010 5 Under 35, a list announcing the next generation of fiction writers. Her writing has been published in Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal , and American Short Fiction
Tiphanie is from the Virgin Islands and is a professor in the master of fine arts program at the New School in New York City.
For more information, visit Tiphanie Yanique's website.
Images of the writers are available for download:
Dana Levin: https://news.unt.edu/image-galleries/image/dana-levin
Tiphanie Yanigue: https://news.unt.edu/image-galleries/image/tiphanie-yanique