Raymond Carver Reading Series: Christopher Kennedy

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

Christopher Kennedy is the author of The Strange God Who Makes Us (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2024); Clues from the Animal Kingdom (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2018); Ennui Prophet (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011); Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award; Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press, 2003); and Nietzsche’s Horse (Mitki/Mitki Press, 2001). He is one of the translators of Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil, (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2013), published as part of the Lannan Translation Series. His work has appeared in many print and on-line journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, The Progressive, Plume, New York Tyrant, Ninth Letter, Wigleaf, The Threepenny Review, Mississippi Review, and McSweeney’s. In 2011, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. He is a professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University.

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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