Malachi Black, Laurie Ann Guerrero, A. Van Jordan

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These three diverse and talented poets have one thing in common--each tackle the sonnet in their most recent collections and, in doing so, breathe new life into a centuries-old form. Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, and two limited-edition chapbooks: Quarantine and Echolocation. Black is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and is a professor at the University of San Diego.

Laurie Ann Guerrero, currently San Antonio’s Poet Laureate, won the 2012 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize for her first full-length collection, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying. Her latest collection is A Crown for Gumecindo.

A. Van Jordan is the author of Cineaste, Rise, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, and Quantum Lyrics. Among other awards, he has received the Whiting Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the Pushcart Prize.

“Black, like a few other younger poets, is willing to include all the traditional effects of the lyric poem in his work, but he has set them going in new and lively ways. . .” --- Mark Jarman, poet

Co-sponsored with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies

Price: $15.00

Time: 7:30pm