For immediate release
February 20, 2014
Poet A. Van Jordan to Read at the University of North Carolina Wilmington Feb. 20.
WILMINGTON, N.C.— A. Van Jordan, distinguished visiting writer-in-residence at the
University of North Carolina Wilmington, will read at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 20 in
Kenan Hall 1111.
Jordan is the author of four collections: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine
Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, (2005), which was listed as
one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics, (2007); and The
Cineaste, (2013), W.W. Norton & Co. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers
Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He is a recipient of a John
Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a United States Artists Williams Fellowship. He
is a Professor in the Dept. of English at the University of Michigan, and teaches in the
MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Jordan is teaching a graduate
workshop in poetry as distinguished visiting writer-in-residence in the Department of
Creative Writing.
The event is free and open to the public. Reception sponsored by the department and
book signing sponsored by Pomegranate Books will follow the reading.
For further information on UNCW’s programs and events in creative writing, please
contact the Department of Creative Writing at 910.962.7063.
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