Writers on Writing: Ronaldo V. Wilson
Monday, November 10, 2014, 7:00 pm to 9:45 pm
Ronaldo V. Wilson discusses and reads from his poetry collection Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (Pitt Poetry Series). Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Humanities Auditorium
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Sponsor:
Creative Writing Department
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Creative Writing Department
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415-338-1891
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Wilson’s Poems of the Black Object won the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. His poetry has received four Pushcart Prize nominations, and he has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Kundiman, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, Anderson Center for the Arts, Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. With poets Dawn Lundy Martin and Duriel E. Harris, Wilson co-founded the performance-based Black Took Collective.
The Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public on Mondays this semester. Taught by Robert Glück, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.