A Reading and Conversation with Poet Brenda Shaughnessy

Name: A Reading and Conversation with Poet Brenda Shaughnessy
Start: 2025-01-13T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-13T19:00:00-05:00
Location: The Center for Fiction

Schedule

Mon Jan 13 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Center for Fiction | Brooklyn, NY

Join Adelphi University's MFA Program for a reading and conversation with the poet Brenda Shaughnessy.
About this Event

Join Adelphi University's MFA Program for a reading, conversation, and book-signing with the award-winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy.

Shaughnessy is the Okinawan-Irish American author of seven poetry collections, including Tanya (Knopf 2023, Bloodaxe 2024, UK); Liquid Flesh: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe 2022, UK); The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019), a New York Times Notable Book; and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon 2012), finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon 2008) received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and was a finalist for the NBCC award. She has received the Howard Foundation Fellowship of Brown University, the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission Fellowship, a 2013 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other honors. Currently, Shaughnessy is co-creating the production of Sensorium Ex, an opera for which she wrote the libretto, which will premiere in 2025. She lives in West Orange, New Jersey.

Author photo by Janea Wiedmann