Brian Barker

Brian Barker is the author of The Animal Gospels (2006) and The Black Ocean (2011), winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition. His poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Writer's Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Cincinnati Review, Blackbird, and Pleiades. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize and the 2009 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. He is married to the poet Nicky Beer and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver where he co-edits the journal Copper Nickel.

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Schedule

THURSDAY

12:30-1:45pm
Conversation: A Life Together
Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar
Chase Room

3:30-4:30
Reading and Conversation
Brian Barker, Rachel McKibbens, Arthur Sze
Victoria Theatre

FRIDAY

9:30-10:30am
Festival Poet Readings
Brian Barker, Henri Cole, Sharon Dolin, Nikky Finney, John Murillo
Victoria Theatre

12:10-1:10pm
Poets on Poetry
Nicky Beer, Brian Barker
North Star Academi Multi-Purpose Room
 

SATURDAY

10:30-11:40
Festival Poets Reading
Brian Barker, Fanny Howe, Taylor Mali
Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral
 

SUNDAY

10:30-11:40
Festival Poet Readings
Brian Barker, Eduardo C. Corral, Emari DiGiorgio, John Murillo
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art