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X-WR-CALNAME:Visiting Writers Reading Series: Kevin Prufer
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DESCRIPTION:Kevin Prufer is the 2026 Texas Poet Laureate. His newest poetry
  collection\, The Fears (Copper Canyon Press\, 2023) received the 2024 Ril
 ke Prize. His new novel Sleepaway (Acre Books\, 2024) was declared a "smal
 l press gem" by the Los Angeles Times. He is also the author of several ot
 her books of poetry\, including The Art of Fiction (2021)\, How He Loved T
 hem (2018)\, Churches (2014)\, In a Beautiful Country (2011) and National 
 Anthem (2008)\, all from Four Way Books. He has edited several volumes of 
 poetry\, including New European Poets (Graywolf Press\, 2008\; w/ Wayne Mi
 ller)\, Literary Publishing in the 21st Century (Milkweed Editions\, 2016\
 ; w/ Wayne Miller & Travis Kurowski)\, and Into English: Poems\, Translati
 ons\, Commentaries (Graywolf Press\, 2017\; w/Martha Collins). With Wayne 
 Miller and Martin Rock\, Prufer directs the Unsung Masters Series\, a book
  series devoted to bringing the work of great but little known authors to 
 new generations of readers through the annual republication of a large bod
 y of each author’s work\, printed alongside essays\, photographs and eph
 emera.\n\n \n\nPrufer is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at th
 e University of Houston and the low-residency MFA at Lesley University. Am
 ong Prufer’s awards and honors are five Pushcart prizes and several Best
  American Poetry selections\, numerous awards from the Poetry Society of A
 merica\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 
 Lannan Foundation. His poetry collection How He Loved Them was long-listed
  for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the Julie Suk Award for the best
  poetry book of 2018 from the American literary press. Born in 1969 in Cle
 veland\, Ohio\, Kevin Prufer studied at Wesleyan University (BA)\, Hollins
  College (MA) and Washington University (MFA).\n\n \n\nThe Visiting Writer
 s Reading Series is sponsored by the Department of English\, the Office of
  the Provost and Dean of the Faculty\, the Lawrence Parke Murphy and Rober
 t Goldstein Trust\, and by generous donations from the extended Whitman co
 mmunity.
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LOCATION:Hunter Conservatory\, Kimball Theatre
SUMMARY:Visiting Writers Reading Series: Kevin Prufer
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