Poetry Reading featuring Bhanu Kapil, Shara McCallum, and GC Waldrep

Event
25th May 2021
19:30 - 21:00
Zoom
Sponsored by Blackbox Manifold, and the Judith E Wilson Centre for Poetry & Poetics, University of Cambridge

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Bhanu Kapil is the author of a number of full-length works of poetry/prose, including The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011), Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2015), and How to Wash a Heart (Liverpool University Press, 2020). Between 2019-20 she was the Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. In 2020 she received the Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry.

Shara McCallum is from Jamaica, born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, and is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including No Ruined Stone. La historia es un cuarto/History is a Room, an anthology of poems selected from across her six books and translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández, will be published in 2021 by Mantis Editores in Mexico. McCallum is on the Faculty of the Pacific Low-Residency MFA and is a Professor of English at Penn State University. She was appointed the 2021-22 Penn State Laureate.

G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are The Earliest Witnesses (Tupelo/Carcanet, 2021) and feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review, New England Review, Yale Review, Colorado Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Conjunctions, and other journals. Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University. In 2021 he is a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.