2018-2019 CAAPP Special Guests

FALL EVENTS

Wednesday, October 10th, 501 Cathedral of Learning

6:00 PM: Co-lab with Jonah Mixon-Webster: An opportunity to engage with Mixon-Webster’s work-in progress

7:30 PM: Reading and Q&A with Jonah-Mixon Webster, author of Stereo(TYPE), the 2017 Sawtooth Poetry Prize winner

 

Thursday, October 25th, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

7:00 PM: The Black Ecstatic, featuring poets Airea D. Matthews, Roger Reeves, and Safiya Sinclair and interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Jamal T. Lewis, with a discussion moderated by Rickey Laurentiis

 

Wednesday November 14th, 501 Cathedral of Learning

6:00 PM: Q&A with Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and current U.S. Poet Laureate

Thursday, November 15th, Carnegie Library Lecture Hall

7:00 PM: Tracy K. Smith reading and conversation
 

SPRING EVENTS

 

January 24, 2018:

Reading by Rickey Laurentiis, author of Boy with Thorn, inaugural Fellow in Creative Writing at CAAPP, and winner of Lannan, Whiting, NEA and Ruth Lilly fellowships

 

Wednesday, March 20th

Details TBA: Masterclass with Claudia Rankine, MacArthur-winning author of Citizen: An American Lyric

 

Thursday, March 21st, Carnegie Library Lecture Hall

7:00 PM: Reading, lecture and conversation with poet Claudia Rankine and acclaimed visual artist Carrie Mae Weems