Join the Academy of American Poets for an evening reading with Indiana Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka, 2016 Walt Whitman Award winner Mai Der Vang, and Cave Canem Foundation co-founder Toi Derricotte.
Oregon Ballroom 201-202, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
Saturday, March 30, 2019
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Anisfield-Wolf Award winner Adrian Matejka is the author of Map to the Stars, The Devil’s Garden, Mixology, and The Big Smoke, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Mai Der Vang’s Afterland won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. A recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, Mai’s writing has appeared in Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, and elsewhere.
Award-winning poet Toi Derricotte has published six collections of poems, most recently I: New & Selected Poems, and a literary memoir, The Black Notebooks, recipient of the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, 2012 – 2017, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.