Arts and Performance
Raymond Carver Reading Series: Tommye Blount
April 6, 2022 at 5:00pm – 6:00pm EDT
Huntington Beard Crouse Hall (HBC)
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The Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences presents the Raymond Carver Reading Series.
A Cave Canem alumnus, Tommye Blount is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, 2020)—a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, and Julie Suk Award—and What Are We Not For (Bull City Press, 2016). He graduated from Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers and has been the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from Kresge Arts in Detroit and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Detroit, he now lives in the nearby suburb of Novi, Michigan.
All readings are scheduled to be held in HBC Gifford Auditorium in a manner consistent with the campus COVID alert level and associated masking framework. Should the situation change, an update will be posted here.
(Photo by Tarfia Faizullah)
This event was first published on February 9, 2022 and last updated on February 10, 2022.
Event Details
- Category
- Arts and Performance
- Type
- Performances
- Region
- Campus
- Open to
- Public
- Organizer
- CAS-Department of English
- Contact
- Matthew Kwan Grzecki
mkgrzeck@syr.edu
- Accessibility
- Contact Matthew Kwan Grzecki to request accommodations