Raymond Carver Reading Series: Joshua Burton

The Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences presents the Raymond Carver Reading Series.

Joshua Burton is a poet and educator from Houston, TX, and received his MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. He is a 2019 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar, 2019 Juniper Summer Writing Institute scholarship winner, 2019 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics fellowship finalist, received the Honorable Mention for the 2018 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, 2020 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing finalist, and a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation grant recipient. His work can be found in Mississippi Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Conduit, TriQuarterly, Black Warrior Review, Grist, and Indiana Review. His chapbook Fracture Anthology is currently out with Ethel and his debut poetry collection Grace Engine is out with the University of Wisconsin Press..

All readings take place in Watson Hall. They begin at 5 p.m. and are preceded by a question-and-answer session that begins at 4 p.m. They are open to the public.

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