Poetry off the Shelf: Harryette Mullen
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free admission, register in advance here
At 30 minutes before event start, guests with Eventbrite tickets will have priority entry to the performance space on a first-come, first-served basis. At 15 minutes prior to event start, the performance space is open to all guests. Seating capacity is limited. Eventbrite reservations do not guarantee entry or reserved seating.
Join us for a reading with poet, short story writer, and scholar Harryette Mullen. She has published eight poetry books, including Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary; Recyclopedia, winner of a PEN Beyond Margins Award; and Sleeping with the Dictionary, a finalist for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her honors include a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She teaches American poetry, African American literature, and creative writing at University of California, Los Angeles. There will be an ASL interpreter at this event.
Cosponsored with the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa