{"id":13036,"date":"2023-02-13T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=13036"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:50:46","slug":"paisley-rekdal-is-featured-reader-in-triptych-series-feb-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2023\/02\/13\/paisley-rekdal-is-featured-reader-in-triptych-series-feb-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Paisley Rekdal is featured reader in Triptych series, Feb. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Mercy’s English Department<\/a> 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"PaisleyRekdal 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rekdal is the author of a book of essays,\u00a0The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee<\/em>;\u00a0the hybrid photo-text memoir,\u00a0Intimate<\/em>; and six books of poetry, including\u00a0Animal Eye<\/em>, winner of the UNT Rilke Prize;\u00a0Imaginary Vessels<\/em>, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize, and Nightingale<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n

“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.” \u2014 Major Jackson, author of The Absurd Man<\/em><\/p>\n

Triptych events, hosted by Detroit Mercy\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Save the Date<\/strong><\/em> as Detroit Mercy’s English Department will host Adam Giannelli<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>as its third reader in the new Triptych visiting author series on March 16.<\/p>\n

Sign up for the Triptych series.<\/a><\/h4>\n

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