AndNow 2019 Keynote Reading by Nathaniel Mackey
Channel: &Now Festival of Innovative Writing
Date: 2019-10-07

&Now Festival of Innovative Writing 2019
Points of Convergence
September 19-22, 2019
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Keynote Reading by Nathaniel Mackey, introduced by Jeanne Heuving

Video by Allison Morton
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Sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics, UW Bothell, The Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell
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Nathaniel Mackey is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Blue Fasa (New Directions, 2015); an ongoing prose work, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth and most recent volume is Late Arcade (New Directions, 2017); and two books of criticism, the most recent of which is Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews (University of Iowa Press, 2018). He is the editor of the literary magazine Hambone and coeditor, with Art Lange, of the anthology Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose (Coffee House Press, 1993). His honors include the National Book Award for poetry, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry from the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Poetry Prize from the Library of Congress.  He is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University.