Poetry off the Shelf: John Wilkinson & Edgar Garcia

Join us for a poetry reading with University of Chicago professors John Wilkinson and Edgar Garcia. Wilkinson serves as director of creative writing at the University of Chicago; his books include My Reef My Manifest Array, Ghost Nets, and Schedule of Unrest. Poet, scholar, and Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Garcia examines the fields of indigenous and Latinx studies, American literature, poetry and poetics, and environmental criticism. His collection of poems and anthropological essays, Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography, won the 2018 Fence Modern Poets Series award. An ASL interpreter will be present.