Leading Poet Tim Seibles Hosted by M.F.A. Reading Series, Nov. 19
November 14, 2014
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
Tim Seibles, a 2012 National Book Award finalist for his plainspoken, provocative poetry, will be hosted by the University of Baltimore's M.F.A. Reading Series on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. in the UB Student Center's Bogomolny Room, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The reading is free and open to the public.
Seibles, born and raised in Philadelphia, has published several collections of poetry, including 2012's Fast Animal, which earned him the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize that year. In a review of Seible's 2005 work Buffalo Head Solos, critic Joey Rubin praised the writer's "back-bending, image-splicing, lyrical narratives."
"Seibles is playful—but he's not kidding around," Rubin said.
In its biography of Seibles, the Poetry Foundation describes him as exploring "themes of racial tension, class conflict, and intimacy from several directions at once in poems with plainspoken yet fast-turning language."
Seibles also has received the 2013 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the National Writers Voice Project's Open Voice Award.
Seibles is a professor of English and creative writing at Old Dominion University, and teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and in Cave Canem workshops.
The M.F.A. Reading Series is sponsored by the Hearst Visiting Scholars Fund.
Learn more about the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts in UB's Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences.
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