University of Baltimore issued the following announcement on March 20.
The University of Baltimore's MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts Spring Reading Series will host poet zakia henderson-brown for a reading and booksigning from her award-winning chapbook, What Kind of Omen Am I, on Thursday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in the Bogomolny Room in the UB Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
What Kind of Omen Am I received the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, selected by Cate Marvin. A 2016 Poets House Emerging Poets fellow, henderson-brown also is a Cave Canem graduate, and has received additional fellowships and support from the Fine Arts Work Center, Callaloo Journal, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her poems have appeared in Adroit, African American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Little Patuxent Review, North American Review, Washington Square Review, Vinyl, and others. She has been in residence at the T.S. Eliot House, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Louis Armstrong House Museum.
The MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts Reading Sweries is sponsored by the Hearst Visiting Scholars Fund. For general information about the series, send an email to christine.drawl@ubalt.edu.
Learn more about the MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts program.
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Source: University of Baltimore
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