Rilke Prize Winner Paisley Rekdal April 9th & 10th

2013 Rilke Prize winner Paisley Rekdal will be giving a public reading on the UNT campus April 9th, and another public reading April 10th at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Please join us in celebrating her poetry and her prize winning book, Animal Eye.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee;  a hybrid-genre photo-text memoir that combines poetry, fiction, nonfiction and photography entitled Intimate; and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, inclusion in the Best American Poetry series and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, and on National Public Radio among others.

Event Information:
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
4PM: Q&A, LANG 316
8PM: Reading and Book Signing, Golden Eagle Suite
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
6:30PM: Reception
7PM: Reading
Reception and Reading at The Dallas Institute of Humanites and Culture