Third Thursday Poetry Series: Rajiv Mohabir
Schedule
Thu Nov 21 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
101 S Debardeleben St, Auburn, AL, United States, Alabama 36830 | Auburn, AL
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Join us for a reading by Rajiv Mohabir. Refreshments and books sales by Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers will be available at 6 PM; the readings will begin at 6:30 PM.Rajiv Mohabir is an Indo-Caribbean American author of three acclaimed poetry collections, The Taxidermist’s Cut, Cowherd’s Son, Cutlish, and Whale Aria;a book of translation, I Even Regret Night; and his hybrid memoir, Antiman. He is winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize, a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, finalists for the 2017 and 2022 Lambda Literary Awards, finalist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award, the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. He received his MFA in Poetry and Translation from Queens College, CUNY and his PhD in English from the University of Hawai`i. Rajiv is currently a professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
The Third Thursday Poetry Series at Pebble Hill is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
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101 S Debardeleben St, Auburn, AL, United States, Alabama 36830Event Location & Nearby Stays:
