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Date(s) - January 15, 2026
6:30 pm
Detroit Mercy’s English Department kicks off its annual Triptych series with poet Cate Marvin, who will read her work on Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Triptych is a virtual reading series featuring award-winning authors in conversation with Detroit Mercy’s Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall. Triptych events are free and open to the community.
Cate Marvin is the author of four books of poetry: World’s Tallest Disaster, winner of the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Fragment of the Head of a Queen, for which she received a Whiting Award; Oracle, which was named by The New York Times as one of “The Best Poetry Books of 2015”; and Event Horizon, which appeared from Copper Canyon Press in 2022.
A recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, she also co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Marvin teaches poetry writing in the Stonecoast M.F.A. Program at the University of Southern Maine and is professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she lives in Scarborough, Maine.
SAVE THE DATE for authors Ross Gay (Feb. 19) and Ilya Kaminsky & Katie Farris (March 19). Triptych events are held via Zoom on third Thursdays in January, February and March, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Register here!
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