The VOX Reading Series and UGA Creative Writing Program are delighted to sponsor a visit from poet D. A. Powell at Avid Bookshop.
D. A. Powell’s books include Cocktails and Chronic, both of which were finalists for the Publishing Triangle and National Book Critics Circle Awards. Powell’s honors include the Gold Medal in Poetry from the California Commonwealth Club and the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Critic Stephen Burt, writing in the New York Times, said of D. A. Powell “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible.”
A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University, Powell has taught at Columbia University, University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Davidson College. He lives in San Francisco.
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys is Powell’s forthcoming fifth collection of poems.
Read more about D. A. Powell here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/da-powell
