Join Lit Youngstown during the 9th Annual Fall Literary Festival for an evening reading featuring poets Todd Davis, Lauren Camp and Kortney Morrow. This event is free and open to the public. ASL translation provided by Meagan Albani.
Todd Davis is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry—Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems; Coffin Honey; Native Species; Winterkill; In the Kingdom of the Ditch; The Least of These; Some Heaven; and Ripe—as well as of a limited-edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, and Snow. His writing has won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, the Bloomsburg University Book Prize, and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver and Bronze Awards. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute and professor of environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Lauren Camp serves as New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024), which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. Camp has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute, as well as the Dorset Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Big Other Book Award and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic.
Kortney Morrow is a poet and writer creating from her studio in Cleveland. Her work has received support from 68to05, The Academy of American Poets, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, and Transition Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, Run It Back, was the winner of the 2024 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, judged by Carmen Giménez. Kortney is represented by McKinnon Literary.
You may also like the following events from Lit Youngstown:
- Next month, 6th September, 09:00 am, Emancipation Day Black History Tour in Youngstown
- Next month, 8th September, 10:30 pm, One Hundred Hungers Book Talk with Lauren Camp in Youngstown, Ohio
- This October, 18th October, 01:30 pm, Creative Reading: Nin Andrews, Melanie Murphy, Paula J. Lambert, Jen McConnell in Youngstown
Also check out other
Arts events in Youngstown,
Literary Art events in Youngstown,
Festivals in Youngstown.
|
