Monday, February 23, 2009

Reading from First Books

The Glass Bookcase Reading Series is proud to present an evening of poetry with Kevin A. González and Sean Hill this Thursday, February 26 at 7pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall.


Kevin A. González was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He holds degrees from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where was also the Carol Houck Smith Fellow in Fiction in 2007-08. He is the author of the chapbook, The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga (Mombotombo Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Callaloo, Poetry Northwest, and The Progressive; and his stories have appeared in Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, and Best New American Voices 2007 and 2009. Cultural Studies is his first book of poems.



A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a Halls Poetry Fellow in 2006-07. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Indiana Review, lyric poetry review, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, and other literary journals, and in the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, and The Ringing Ear . He is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.












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