Join Illinois authors Daniel Borzutzky and Christopher Grimes for a special reading and Q&A session on Zoom.
Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator. His latest books are Lake Michigan, a finalist for the 2018 International Griffin Poetry Prize, and The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy, Memories of My Overdevelopment, and The Book of Interfering Bodies. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia won the 2017 National Translation Award. Other translations include Raúl Zurita’s The Country of Planks and Song for His Disappeared Love, and Jaime Luis Huenún’s Port Trakl. He teaches in the English and Latin American and Latino Studies Departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Christopher Grimes is the author of The Pornographers, and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella, and he is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His teaching and research interest primarily center on postmodern, contemporary, experimental, and avant-garde fiction.
Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities. Presented by the Humanities Research Institute and the Department of English/Creative Writing Program (U of I). Cosponsored by the Institute for the Humanities (UIC), UIC Program for Writers, UIS Creative Writing, The Champaign Public Library, The Urbana Free Library, Illinois Public Radio, and the Illini Union Bookstore.
Conveniently located at the corner of Race and Green in downtown Urbana.
