Calendar of Events
UT Creative Writing and Union Ave Books: Poetry Reading by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Category: Free event and Literature, spoken word, writing
Online Event
Join us Monday, September 21 at 7pm for a poetry reading by Rebecca Gayle Howell.
Webinar link: the event webinar link will be published closer to the event date.
Books available for preorder by Union Ave Books at https://unionavebooks.indielite.org/event/921-rebecca-gayle-howell.
Rebecca Gayle Howell’s most recent book is American Purgatory, selected by Don Share for Great Britain’s 2016 Sexton Prize and named a must-read collection by Poetry London, The Millions, and the Courier-Journal. She is also the author of Render / An Apocalypse, which received wide acclaim, most notably by David L. Ulin for the Los Angeles Times who called it “remarkable.” Howell’s debut was as the translator of Amal al-Jubouri’s Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation, shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and selected by Library Journal as a best book of 2011. Among her other honors are fellowships from United States Artists, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Carson McCullers Center, as well as a Pushcart Prize. Since 2014, she has served as Poetry Editor for Oxford American.
