Anne Boyer Poetry Reading

Date
Mon June 4th 2018, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Event Sponsor
Comparative Literature, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Department of English
Location
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall
Anne Boyer Poetry Reading

Mantis, the Department of Comparative Literature, the DLCL, Stanford Arts Institute and the English Department invite you to a poetry reading with the award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer* on Monday June 4, 5:30PM in Margaret Jacks Hall, Terrace Room.

Anne Boyer is a U.S. poet and essayist and the inaugural winner of the  Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2018). She is also a 2018 Whiting Award winner in Nonfiction and Poetry. Boyer's newest book, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, is now available from UDP. Boyer's other books include The Romance of Happy Workers (Coffee House 2008), My Common Heart (Spooky Girlfriend 2011), and the 2016 CLMP awardwinning Garments Against Women (U.S., Ahsahta 2015; U.K, Mute 2016). She lives in Kansas City, where she is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute.