Please join The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and the Black Poetics Collective for Black ________ Poetics: Donika Kelly and Cameron Awkward-Rich, tomorrow, Thursday, February 15th, 12:30-2pm in the Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201).

The event will feature a poetry reading and conversation on Black trans* and queer poetics of the object featuring Donika Kelly and Cameron Awkward-Rich. Lunch will be provided.

Donika Kelly is the author of Bestiary (Graywolf Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for poetry, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry, and currently a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, Donika received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. She is an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University, where she teaches creative writing.

Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and the chapbook Transit (Button Poetry, 2015). Cam, who received his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, an editor at Muzzle Magazine and HEArt, and a current postdoctoral associate in the program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. His critical book-in progress—Disavowing Attachments: Maladjustment in Trans[masculine] Thought—examines the politics and poetics of bad feelings in trans theory and literature.