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Poets House Presents: John Murillo

Online Program

Sep 4, 2020 | 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm

John Murillo

Award winning poet and educator John Murillo reads from his recently published collection Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books, 2020), from East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie (Cypher 2010, Four Way 2020), finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award, and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (forthcoming from Four Way Books 2020). His honors include a Pushcart Prize, the J Howard and Barbara MJ Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2017, 2019, and 2020.  He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.


Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings that are posted on IGTVYouTube, and our Archive on Fridays at noon.


Admission Free Online Program.

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Date:
Sep 4, 2020
Time:
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
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