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Live from Prairie Lights: Lindsay Stern in Conversation with Charles D’Ambrosio promotional image
Live from Prairie Lights: Lindsay Stern in Conversation with Charles D’Ambrosio
Friday, April 12, 2019 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Writers’ Workshop graduate Lindsay Stern will read from one of the most anticipated novels of 2019, The Study of Animal Languages, followed by a brief conversation with Charles D’Ambrosio. "Artful and astute, funny and unnerving, The Study of Animal Languages brilliantly captures how easily we can mistake our impressions of the world, and the models we make of them, for the world itself. A knockout."—Paul Harding

Stern is the recipient of a Watson Fellowship and an Amy Award from Poets &...

Humanize My Hoodie: Opening Event promotional image
Humanize My Hoodie: Opening Event
Friday, April 12, 2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Old Capitol Museum

PLEASE NOTE: We are expecting a full house on Friday. Seating is first come, first serve. There will be a spill over room featuring live feed from the talk. Speakers will begin shortly after 4pm. Please plan accordingly.

Join us in welcoming co-creators of the National Art Exhibit Humanize My Hoodie, Andre Wright and Jason Sole as they give a brief talk about their project and their journey. The HMH exhibit will be expanded from the gallery with extra pieces on display throughout the entire...

Re-Viewing 'Eyes Wide Shut': Tracie Morris’ Poetic Reinterpretation of the classic Kubrick film promotional image
Re-Viewing 'Eyes Wide Shut': Tracie Morris’ Poetic Reinterpretation of the classic Kubrick film
Friday, April 12, 2019 3:30pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building

Please join us on Friday, April 12th in E105 Adler Journalism Building (AJB) for a live
reinterpretation of the first half of Stanley Kubrick’s final complete film, Eyes Wide Shut. Poet
and artist Tracie Morris will recontextualize Kubrick’s masterpiece as a commentary on race,
sexuality, and gender which combines her own poetic imagination with research conducted at
Kubrick’s London archives. The performance is durational for 90 minutes without interruption.

Tracie Morris is a sound poet...

An Duplan and Julian Talamantez Brolaski promotional image
An Duplan and Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Friday, April 12, 2019 11:00am
Dey House

Please join us for a Q & A session with poets, An Duplan and Julian Talamantez Brolaski. They will speak about poetry and professional life in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 12

Photo credits: The Rumpus and Charles L. Sjölander