English: Poetry Reading with Marcus Wicker
March 7, 2019: 1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Poet Marcus Wicker is the author of Silencer (2017) and Maybe the Saddest Thing (2012), which was selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. He is the recipient of various awards, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, The Missouri Review鈥檚 Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and The Fine Arts Work Center. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, and Boston Review. His second book, Silencer - also an Image Award finalist - was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017 and won the Society of Midlan Authors Award, as well as the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for New Voices. Marcus Wicker teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, and he is the poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review.
Book signing and reception at 2 p.m.
Marcus Wicker