Visiting Writers Series - Poets Airea D. Matthews & Ladan Osman

Airea D. Matthews is the author of Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets, and a 2020 Pew Fellow.  Her work has appeared Callaloo, Best American Poets, Harvard Review, American Poet, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College and is working on her second book, mundane gods.

Somali-born poet and essayist Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (Coffee House Press, 2019), a work of poetry, photos, and experimental text; The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony University of Nebraska Press, 2015), winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize; and chapbook Ordinary Heaven, which appeared in the box-set Seven New Generation African Poets (Slapering Hol Press, 2014).  Osman has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, Luminarts Foundation, and the Michener Center for Writers, among numberous other nominations.

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https://webster-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-qgqDkiGNGpLTmFLPZnBvjYdHasJ3az

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 1:30pm to 3:30pm

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