Beyond Scholarship, Beyond Poetry: Graduate Student Spotlight

For National Poetry Month, the UT Poetry Center is pleased to feature three UT graduate student poets. Our featured readers include drea brown from African and African Diaspora Studies, Ryan Sharp from English, and Jason Ikpatt from Cell and Molecular Biology. The evening’s event will include poetry readings from each writer, followed by a moderated Q&A with English Professor Lisa Moore. Light refreshments will be served.

drea brown is a poet/scholar whose poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. She is a Cave Canem fellow, holds an MFA from the University of Oregon, and is currently a PhD candidate in African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin. Her chapbook dear girl: a reckoning was published by Gold Line Press in 2015.

Ryan Sharp is a PhD candidate in the English Department at The University of Texas at Austin where his research focuses on contemporary Black American persona poetry and the Archive. His poetry and reviews have appeared in several journals including Callaloo, Copper Nickel, and PANK. He lives with his wife and two children in Austin, where he serves as the editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and as the Writers’ Studio Coordinator at Huston-Tillotson University. His chapbook, my imaginary old man: poems, will be published by Finishing Line Press this fall.

Jason Ikpatt is a doctoral candidate at UT Austin’s Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. He has received the National Scholar award, a research fellowship from the National Science Foundation, and authored presentations for the Society for Social Neuroscience and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. His poetry has won competitions at the local Austin Poetry Slam and was featured in an episode the Inefficiency podcast.

Lisa L. Moore, Archibald A. Hill Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, is the author of Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes (Minnesota, 2011), which won the Lambda Literary Award. She's author or editor four other books and over fifty articles and essays, which include GLQ, Feminist Studies, Cultural Critique, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Women’s Review of Books. Her poems have recently appeared in Literary Mama, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, White Wall Review, and Anchor Magazine, and have been recognized by the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston Ekphrastic Poetry Prize and as Split This Rock Poem of the Week.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 5:00pm

Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL), UT Poetry Center, PCL 2.500
101 21ST ST E, Austin, Texas 78705

Event Type

Arts & Humanities

Departments

University of Texas Libraries

Target Audience

Students, Staff, Alumni, Families, General Public

Website

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/calendar/be...

Cost

free and open to the public

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