Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Carla Harryman and Divya Victor

On Tuesday, October 20th, at 6pm in the Robert Kelly Reading Room, poets Carla Harryman and Divya Victor will read from their work. This reading is free and open to the public.

Carla Harryman is a poet, experimental prose writer, essayist, performance writer and collaborator in multi-disciplinary performance. In addition to Various Devices (Polyphem, 2024), her most recent books are Cloud Cantata (Pamenar 2022) and A Voice to Perform: One Opera/Two Plays ( SplitLevel Texts, 2020). She has served on the MFA summer faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and on the faculty in the Department of English, Wayne State University. In 2019, she received the  Ronald C. Collins Distinguished Faculty in Creative Activity Award from Eastern Michigan University.

Divya Victor is a Tamil-American poet, essayist, and educator. She is the author of Curb, which won the PEN Open Book Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award for Kin, her forthcoming collection of essays from Graywolf. She is also the author of Kith, Natural Subjects, Things to Do with your Mouth, and other books. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Michigan State University, where she is the Director of the Creative Writing Program. She has been a citizen of India, Singapore, and the United States, and is at home in all these countries.

This reading will take place one day after Divya Victor's Leslie Scalapino Lecture. This lecture will take place on October 19, at 6pm in the Robert Kelly Reading Room, for any who are interested.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: North Campus Center, Robert Kelly Reading Room

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