GV Arts Celebration: Poetry Night with Paisley Rekdal

Name: GV Arts Celebration: Poetry Night with Paisley Rekdal
Start: 2024-10-24T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-24T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Wealthy Theatre

Schedule

Thu Oct 24 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Wealthy Theatre | Grand Rapids, MI

Poet Paisley Rekdal tackles history, immigration, literature, pedagogy, and race in her work. An author of four books of nonfiction, and seven books of poetry, she has been longlisted for the National Book Award and won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In West: A Translation, Rekdal presents poems and essays that draw together the building of the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1867, all through a character-by-character examination of a poem left anonymously by a Chinese immigrant on Angel Island. Her latest book, Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading Poetry, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in late 2024.

GVSU Poetry Night has a tradition of bringing some of the most celebrated and distinguished poets to enlighten and entertain. One of the largest poetry reading series in the state thanks to the generosity of donors and the university, Poetry Night events are always free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the presentation.