American Literary Review Spring Student Reading March 29th

Please join us Friday, March 29th, for our second to last Graduate student reading of the year. The reading features poetry by Kyle McCord, Kara Dorris, Chelsea Wagenaar and Katy Brizendine, as well as non-fiction by April Murphy. All students and faculty are welcome to attend at 7:30 pm.

-Kyle McCord is the author of three books of poetry, including Sympathy from the Devil (Gold Wake 2013), which was a finalist for the Green Rose Prize and the Levine Prize.  He has work featured inBoston Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Verse and elsewhere. He's received grants or awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Baltic Writing Residency.  He's the lead content editor of LitBridge and co-edits iO: A Journal of New American Poetry.  He teaches at the University of North Texas in Denton.

-Kara Dorris is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Elective Affinities (Dancing Girl Press 2011) andNight Ride Home (Finishing Line Press 2012). Her poetry has appeared in several journals including The Tusculum Review, The Medulla Review, Harpur Palate, The Tulane Review, Cutbank, Crazyhorse as well as a the anthology Beauty is a Verb (Cinco Puntos Press 2011). She edits a poetry journal calledLingerpost and lives in Denton with four zany, mischievous dogs. 

-Chelsea Wagenaar is a doctoral candidate in poetry at UNT where she is also a teaching fellow. Her poems have been accepted or appeared recently in Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Salamander, and Barrow Street, and she is the 2012 winner of the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize through Nimrod. Her poetry manuscript has recently been a finalist for the Brittingham/Pollak Prize as well as the Perugia Press Poetry Prize. On bad days, she considers quitting graduate school to pursue the art of refurbishing thrift store furniture. 

-A 2012 finalist for the Richard J. Margolis Award, April Murphy is a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of North Texas. She currently serves as the Assistant Nonfiction Editor for American Literary Review. Her writing has been published in Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine and Mason’s Road. April is currently working on her first book Shrouded: Women Who Work With the Dead. She lives in Denton, TX with her dog Roan.