Live Poetry Reading with Eduardo C. Corral, Cameron MacKenzie, and Spencer Short, hosted by John Wall Barger

Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlf-mgpzwpHdZZB3CAIOVCXQ-8utbL0yWr

Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning, which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize 

and Guillotine. Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral has received numerous honors and awards, including the Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A CantoMundo Fellow, he has held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University and was the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. In 2016 he won the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Corral teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

Cameron MacKenzie was born in Virginia and has worked as a dry cleaner, house painter, contractor, editor, and teacher, residing in Santa Barbara, London, Tokyo, Philadelphia, San Francisco and now Virginia once again, where he lives with his wife and two children. Cameron MacKenzie’s work has appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, Salmagundi, The Rumpus, and J Journal, among other places. His novel, The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career and monograph Badiou and American Modernist Poetics were both published in 2018. He teaches English at Ferrum College and writes for The Roanoke Review.

Spencer Short‘s collection of poetry, Tremolo, was a winner of the 2000 National Poetry Series, selected by Billy Collins. Emily Nussbaum, reviewing Tremolo for The New York Times, noted “”a prickly stir of humor, philosophy and romantic giddiness,” and that “reading this book is something like walking into a kitchen at a party and coming upon a wild charmer you’d never met, mid-gesticulation — a terrific storyteller, but also one eager to switch gears mid-sentence, mid-phrase, mid-thought.” Cal Bedient, reviewing Tremolo in the Boston Review, found “a clawing power of invention.”  In 2003, Short was included in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets festival honoring the “most interesting recent first book poets.” His poems have been included in several anthologies. 

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