Poetry off the Shelf: Christian Campbell
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
CART Captioning will be provided at this event
Free admission, register in advance here
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Experience the work of Christian Campbell, the youngest person to deliver the annual Derek Walcott Lecture for Nobel Laureate Week in St. Lucia. Campbell is the author of the widely acclaimed poetry collection Running the Dusk, winner of a Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and a finalist for the Forward Prize for the Best First Collection and the Cave Canem Prize. Running the Dusk was translated into Spanish by Aida Bahr and published in Cuba as Correr el Crepúsculo. Campbell has received awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Arvon Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, among others.
Presented in partnership with the Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago