American University Alumni Reading with Abdul Ali & Jenny Molberg
Forgot to plug it here, but on March 2 I had the great pleasure of coming back to my alma mater and participating in a reading with two fellow AU MFA/Creative Writing alums, Abdul Ali & Jenny Molberg.
Abdul is the author of Trouble Sleeping, winner the 2014 New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by Fanny Howe. He’s a two-time recipient of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Literature fellowship. He's taught English at The Bryn Mawr School and Towson University (http://abdulali.net/).
Jenny won the 2014 Berkshire Prize for her debut collection of poems, Marvels of the Invisible (forthcoming, Tupelo Press). She received her PhD from the University of North Texas and teaches at the University of Central Missouri (http://www.jennymolberg.com/).
It was wonderful seeing the members of my thesis committee (chair Myra Sklarew & Dr. Keith Leonard) as well as old classmates Venus Thrash, Sandra Beasley, fellow Charlottean Derrick Weston Brown & Natalie Ilium- really cool to see them come out for me/us after all these years. The evening was hosted by Prof. Kyle Dargan, who I saw at AU as a student when he came as a visiting writer. I feel I've come full circle w/these recent readings at UNCCharlotte and at AU, places so vital to who I am as a person and a writer.
Google all these people I just named dropped and buy a book.
Abdul is the author of Trouble Sleeping, winner the 2014 New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by Fanny Howe. He’s a two-time recipient of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Literature fellowship. He's taught English at The Bryn Mawr School and Towson University (http://abdulali.net/).
Jenny won the 2014 Berkshire Prize for her debut collection of poems, Marvels of the Invisible (forthcoming, Tupelo Press). She received her PhD from the University of North Texas and teaches at the University of Central Missouri (http://www.jennymolberg.com/).
It was wonderful seeing the members of my thesis committee (chair Myra Sklarew & Dr. Keith Leonard) as well as old classmates Venus Thrash, Sandra Beasley, fellow Charlottean Derrick Weston Brown & Natalie Ilium- really cool to see them come out for me/us after all these years. The evening was hosted by Prof. Kyle Dargan, who I saw at AU as a student when he came as a visiting writer. I feel I've come full circle w/these recent readings at UNCCharlotte and at AU, places so vital to who I am as a person and a writer.
Google all these people I just named dropped and buy a book.
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