Poetry reading series – Susan Briante

Have you ever read poetry that uses fieldwork and archives to deal with important social and political concerns? Come hear three acclaimed poets who employ research and reporting to grapple with such timely issues as immigration, identity, cultural appropriation, racism and the military- and prison-industrial complexes. Their works intersect with the social sciences, drawing on anthropology, sociology, history, media studies, education, psychology, political science and law.

• Thursday, Feb. 16, Susan Briante
• Tuesday, Feb. 28, Nomi Stone
• Thursday, March 30, Paisley Rekdal

All readings are free and open to the public.

The series is sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing at The University of Tulsa, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

Susan Briante is the author of three books of poetry: Pioneers in the Study of Motion, Utopia Minus and The Market Wonders, as well as Defacing the Monument (Noemi Press, 2020), a series of essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state that won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. She has received grants and awards from The Atlantic Monthly, the MacDowell Colony, the Academy of American Poets, the US-Mexico Fund for Culture and (most recently) the Ucross Foundation. She is a professor of English in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona.