Please considering joining Ninth Letter in celebrating LAS Impact Week next Friday, October 30, at 12pm CST, for a virtual poetry reading and discussion featuring award-winning poet Kathy Fagan and recent MFA alumna Jessica Tanck. We'll be talking about Ninth Letter and its role in the Creative Writing Program, and Kathy and Jess will share some of their amazing work; a Q and A will follow.
Please visit the link below to register for this Zoom event.
https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtde-upz0rE9Eo5gvhR33SYlqXUOON1jXq
A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s MFA program, Jessica Tanck lives and writes in Salt Lake City, where she is a Vice-Presidential Fellow and doctoral student in poetry at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Kenyon Review Online, The Los Angeles Review, New Ohio Review, and others.
Kathy Fagan’s latest collection is Sycamore (Milkweed Editions, 2017), a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is also the author of the National Poetry Series selection The Raft (Dutton, 1985), the Vassar Miller Prize winner MOVING & ST RAGE (Univ of North Texas, 1999), The Charm (Zoo, 2002), and Lip (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2009). Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Slate, FIELD, Narrative, The New Republic, The Nation, and Poetry, among other literary magazines, and is widely anthologized. Fagan was named Ohio Poet of the Year for 2017, and is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Frost Place, Ohioana, Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Ohio Arts Council. The Director of Creative Writing and the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, she is currently Professor of English, Poetry Editor of OSU Press, and Advisor to The Journal.
