VerseFest 2018 - American Poets: Jackson, Jackson, Schiff & Wagner
3:00 PM on Sunday Mar. 25th, 2018
Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St.
3:00 PM on Sunday Mar. 25th, 2018
Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St.
Join VerseFest in welcoming American poets to Ottawa! Featuring readings by:
DIDI JACKSON‘s debut collection of poems, Killing Jar, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared most recently in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Common, among other publications. She teaches Creative Writing, Poetry and the Visual Arts, and 20th Century Poetry of War and Witness at the University of Vermont and serves as the associate poetry editor for Green Mountains Review.
MAJOR JACKSON is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently Roll Deep. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors, he is the Richard A. Dennis Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.
ROBYN SCHIFF is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent of which, A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, A Public Space, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Schiff co-edits Canarium Books and teaches poetry at the University of Iowa.
JASMINE DREAME WAGNER is an American writer, artist, and musician. She is the author of On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press), a collection of lyric essays and poems deemed “a capacious book of traveller’s observations, cultural criticism, and quarter-life-crisis notes” by Stephanie (Stephen) Burt at The New Yorker and “a radical cultural anthropology of the wild time we’re living in” by Iris Cushing at Hyperallergic. She is also the author of Rings (Kelsey Street Press) and six chapbooks. Wagner's work appears in American Letters and Commentary, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Fence, and Guernica. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of the Arts and grants and residencies from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Marble House Project, Summer Literary Seminars, and The Wassaic Project. Wagner lives in Brooklyn.
DIDI JACKSON‘s debut collection of poems, Killing Jar, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared most recently in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Common, among other publications. She teaches Creative Writing, Poetry and the Visual Arts, and 20th Century Poetry of War and Witness at the University of Vermont and serves as the associate poetry editor for Green Mountains Review.
MAJOR JACKSON is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently Roll Deep. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors, he is the Richard A. Dennis Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.
ROBYN SCHIFF is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent of which, A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, A Public Space, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Schiff co-edits Canarium Books and teaches poetry at the University of Iowa.
JASMINE DREAME WAGNER is an American writer, artist, and musician. She is the author of On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press), a collection of lyric essays and poems deemed “a capacious book of traveller’s observations, cultural criticism, and quarter-life-crisis notes” by Stephanie (Stephen) Burt at The New Yorker and “a radical cultural anthropology of the wild time we’re living in” by Iris Cushing at Hyperallergic. She is also the author of Rings (Kelsey Street Press) and six chapbooks. Wagner's work appears in American Letters and Commentary, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Fence, and Guernica. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of the Arts and grants and residencies from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Marble House Project, Summer Literary Seminars, and The Wassaic Project. Wagner lives in Brooklyn.