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SRPR Lucia Getsi Poetry Reading to feature John Keene and Marissa Davis
Wednesday, April 10 , 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm CDT
Award-winning poets John Keene and Marissa Davis will visit the Normal Theater in Uptown Normal for the annual SRPR Lucia Getsi Poetry Reading on Wednesday, April 10, at 7 p.m. A book signing will follow the reading.
John Keene received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry for Punks: New and Selected Poems, and he has also been recognized with a “Genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Marissa Davis is the winner of the 2023 SRPR Editors’ Prize for her poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish,” and she is the author of My Name and Other Languages I Am Learning How to Speak, which was awarded the 2019 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, selected by Danez Smith.
Local bookseller Bobzbay Books will have limited copies of John Keene’s Punks: New and Selected Poems available for purchase at the event. Secure a copy by preordering with pickup at the reading on 4/10.
The SRPR Lucia Getsi Poetry Reading is made possible by the Harold K. Sage Fund and the Illinois State University Foundation, Lucia Getsi, SRPR, the Publications Unit, the Department of English at Illinois State University, and the Department of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.
If you need an accommodation to fully participate in this program/event, please contact Holms Troelstrup at (309) 438-3025 or publicationsunit@IllinoisState.edu. Please allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.
