Mark Wunderlich is an award-winning poet, and Naima Woods is an up-and-coming poet who attends NMSU. Together, these captivating authors will read from their work at 7:30 p.m. on Friday Feb. 5th on the NMSU campus, in the Health and Social Services Building auditorium, Rm. 101.
Wunderlich’s first book, The Anchorage, received the Lambda Literary Award and his third book, The Earth Avails, received the 2015 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas and is currently a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. He has published poems in The Paris Review, Yale Review, Slate, Tin House, Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He currently chairs the Artistic Advisory Board at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Noemi Press.
In a review of Wunderlich’s most recent book, Arthur Sze wrote the following: “the earth is replete with creatures--coyote, bees, 'rat snake coiled in the cellar beams'--and the speaker moves through the world, mindful and voicing apotropaic letters, charms, and prayers. In poems sharpened by luminous details, the outer and inner worlds converge so that an albino buck leaping away becomes 'a white tooth / in the closing mouth of the woods,' and we experience the visible world and 'the imagined world made visible.’”
Naima Woods is a writer and educator living and working in the countryside of Southern New Mexico. She is currently pursing her MFA at New Mexico State University. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Tent Residency fellow. Her chapbook, MAKE WITNESS, was published by Zoo Cake Press in 2015. New work can be read, or is forthcoming in Glint, Glittermob, Alien Mouth, jubilat, Anthropoid and elsewhere.
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the reading. The reading is presented by La Sociedad para las Artes and the NMSU English Department.
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