Third Thursday Literary Series: Jacqueline Allen Trimble

Refreshments and book sales will be available at 6 PM; the reading will begin at 6:30 PM.

Jacqueline Allen Trimble is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (Poetry), a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow (2017, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in various journals including Poetry Magazine, The Louisville Review, The Offing, The Rumpus, Salvation South, and Poet Lore and has also been featured by the Poetry Foundation’s Poem of the Day twice, Poetry Daily, and Poem-a Day and in the anthologies This is The Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Little Brown, 2024), All Night, All Day: Life, Death and Angels, (Madville Publishing), The Beautiful: Poet’s Reimagine a Nation (Galaula Arts), The Night’s Magician (Negative Capability Press). She has also written episodes for Die Testament and Die Testament 2, South African soap operas. Published by NewSouth Books, American Happiness, her debut poetry collection won the 2016 Balcones Poetry Prize. How to Survive the Apocalypse her second poetry collection was listed as one of the top ten best poetry books of 2022 by New York Public Library. Trimble earned the B.A. from Huntingdon College and the M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Alabama. She is Professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University.

The Third Thursday Literary Series is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

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