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Date(s) - February 16, 2023
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Detroit Mercy’s English Department will host poet and writer Paisley Rekdal as the second speaker in its new virtual reading series, Triptych on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Rekdal will give a reading her work followed by audience questions. The event is free and open to the public. Interested participants are asked to register beforehand.
Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and six books of poetry, including Animal Eye, winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize, and Nightingale, which won the 2020 Washington State Book Award for Poetry. She is a distinguished professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of West: A Translation, as well as the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City.
“Paisley Rekdal’s gifts as a poet and intellectual are intractable and manifold. With all of their rhetorical pleasures and illustrative rhythms, Rekdal’s poems are deeply marked by a sensate, near terrestrial, relationship to language such that she refreshes and renews debates about beauty, suffering, and art for the twenty-first-century reader.” — Major Jackson, author of The Absurd Man
Triptych events, hosted by Detroit Mercy’s poet-in-residence Stacy Gnall, will take place on the third Thursday for January, February and March at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom. They are all free and open the the public.
Sign up for the Triptych series.
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