Schedule of Events

July 24, 2022

7 PM - Poetry Festival Part One: Keynote with Vievee Francis

Join us for a Keynote with Vievee Francis

Vievee Francis is the author of The Shared World, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press; Forest Primeval (TriQuarterly Books, 2015); Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012); and Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne StateUniversity Press, 2006). In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and in 2010, a Kresge Fellowship. She is the recipient of the 2021 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. She serves as an associate editor of Callaloo and an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.

Keynote is free for students attending a workshop this week. Tickets for the general public will be available at the door.

July 31, 2022

7 PM - Poetry Festival Part Two: Keynote with Terrance Hayes

Join us for a Keynote with Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.

Keynote is free for students attending a workshop this week. Tickets for the general public will be available at the door.

Date: July 24 and 31, 2022

Time: 7 PM

Cost: Free

Location:
Fine Arts Work Center,
24 Pearl Street,
Provincetown, MA 02657.

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