MKM Poetry Library
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UPCOMING
A Featured Reading with Ariana Benson
Presented by the Garry Fleming Poetry Series in Collaboration with the Humanities Institute
November 12, 2025
黑料网吃瓜爆料, Tampa Campus
Ariana Benson is a Southern Black ecopoet. She is a graduate of and Royal Holloway University of London, where she studied Poetic Practice as a . Ariana received the 2022 Furious Flower Poetry Prize, the 2022 Porter House Review Poetry Prize, and the 2021 Graybeal-Gowen Prize.
A Featured Reading with K. Iver
Presented by the Garry Fleming Poetry Series in Collaboration with the Humanities Institute
February 11, 2026
黑料网吃瓜爆料, Tampa Campus
K. Iver (they/them) is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved鈥檚 Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions. Short Film won the Wisconsin Book Award and was shortlisted for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. It was named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Public Library. Iver鈥檚 poems have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, The L.A. Review of Books, and elsewhere. Iver has received fellowships from The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers鈥� Conference, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University.
A Featured Reading with Jake Skeets
Presented by the Garry Fleming Poetry Series in Collaboration with the Humanities Institute
April 8, 2026
黑料网吃瓜爆料, Tampa Campus
Jake Skeets (he/him) is Tsi鈥檔aaj铆nii born for T谩b膮膮h谩; his maternal grandparents are the T谩chii鈥檔ii and his paternal grandparents are the T贸d铆k鈥櫭硓h铆. Skeets is Din茅 from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. His debut collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, is a winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award. His honors include a 2020-2021 Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.
His poems and essays have been included in Poetry, New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and other journals. His research around poetics and aesthetics explore Din茅 poetics and aesthetics, ecopoetics, Indigenous queer theories, and critical Indigenous feminisms. His work 鈥淔orm, Memory: Mapping Land through Din茅 Poetry鈥� is included in the book N铆hi K茅yah: Navajo Homeland, edited by Lloyd L. Lee, published by the University of Arizona Press. He was awarded an National Endowment for the Arts Grant for his Counter Mapping Arizona project that will bring four Indigenous artists together to discuss mapping, art-making, and artistic ecosystems.
POSTPONED
The First Annual Lecture on Poetics with Dr. Emily Griffiths Jones
Emily Griffiths Jones is an associate professor of English at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Right Romance: Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England and has published on Milton, Shakespeare, women writers, genre, and politics. Her current projects are on interactions between early modern literature and fan culture.
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A Featured Reading with Dana LevinPresented by The Garry Fleming Poetry Series April 3, 2025 6 p.m. Dana Levin鈥檚 new book of poetry is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), a New York Times Notable Book and Lannan Literary Selection. Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Gl眉ck for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. A teacher of poetry for over thirty years, Levin has taught for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 2002 and currently serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. |
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A Featured Reading with Paul Hlava CeballosPresented by The Garry Fleming Poetry Series February 18, 2025 6 p.m. Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America鈥檚 Norma Farber First Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He has fellowships from CantoMundo, Artist Trust, and the Poets House. He has been featured on the Poetry Magazine Podcast and Seattle鈥檚 the Stranger. He currently lives in Seattle, where he is the Poetry Editor of the Seattle Met and practices echocardiography. |
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A Featured Reading with Ocean Vuong
November 14, 2024 Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the author of the poetry collections, Time is a Mother, a finalist for the Griffin prize, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, and The Academy of American Poets. |
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Book Launch for Ajibola Tolase's 2,000 BlacksNovember 4, 2024 Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He graduated from the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His chapbook, Koola Lobitos was published as a part of the New Generation African Poets Series edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani in 2021. His writing has appeared in LitHub, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is a former Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and has received a creative writing grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. He is the 2023-2024 Olive B. O鈥機onnor Fellow in Poetry at Colgate University. He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry in the Department of English at the University of South Florida. |
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Second Annual D铆a de los Muertos CelebrationNovember 1, 2024 Join us for coffee, pan dulce, and poetry as we celebrate the dead. |
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A Featured Reading with Alison C. RollinsPresented by The Garry Fleming Poetry Series February 3, 2024 6 p.m. Alison C. Rollins was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation鈥檚 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers' Award and in 2020, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and the debut poetry collection, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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D铆a de Los Muertos CelebrationNovember 1, 2023
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A Lecture & Reading with Poet and Translator Taylor StricklandOctober 24, 2023 Taylor Strickland is a poet and translator from the US. He is the author of Commonplace Book, and Dastram / Delirium, a PBS Translation Choice. His work has appeared in New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. His poem 鈥楾he Low Road鈥� was adapted by American composer, Andrew Kohn, and performed in Scotland. Along with filmmaker Olivia Booker and composer Fee Blumenthaler, he made the film poem Nine Whales, Tiree, which featured at Bloomsday, Chapel Hill, and Glasgow film festivals. He is a doctoral candidate in literary translation at the University of Glasgow, and he lives in Glasgow, Scotland, with his wife, Lauren. |