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MFA Poetry Series: Visiting Poet Christina Pugh

MFA Poetry Series

All events are in HIB 135 at 6pm, Free and open to the public

Christina Pugh’s fourth book of poems, Perception, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2017. She is also the author of Grains of the Voice (Northwestern University Press, 2013), Restoration (Northwestern University Press, 2008), and Rotary (Word Press, 2004), which received the Word Press First Book Prize.  Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other publications; and her criticism has appeared in Poetry, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Literary Imagination, and The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945, among others. Pugh is the recipient of a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in poetry and a 2016 residency fellowship at the Bogliasco Foundation.  She has previously received fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Illinois Arts Council, Poetry magazine, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale and Ucross Foundations.   She is Professor of English in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and consulting editor for Poetry.