Larissa Szporluk

Larissa Szporluk is the author of five books of poetry. Recent poems have appeared in Ploughshares and Burnside Review. Her new book, Traffic with Macbeth, was published in 2011 by Tupelo Press. The recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, she teaches creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Visit her page on the Poetry Foundation website here.

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Schedule

THURSDAY

7:30-10:00
POETRY SAMPLER
Richard Blanco, Eavan Boland, Henri Cole, Sharon Dolin, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Fanny Howe, Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Thomas Lux, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, Joseph Millar, Idra Novey, Gregory Orr, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Patricia Smith, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk, Natasha Trethewey, C.K. Williams, Raúl Zurita
Prudential Hall
 

FRIDAY

10:50-11:50am
Conversation: Tell All the Truth, But Tell It Slant
Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón, Larissa Szporluk
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church

12:10-1:10pm
Festival Poet Readings
Thomas Lux, Larissa Szporluk, C. K. Williams, Raúl Zurita, Paul Legault
Victoria Theatre

2:50-3:50pm
Conversations: On the Life of the Poet
John Murillo, Larissa Szporluk, Raúl Zurita & Translator
Prudential Hall
 

SATURDAY

9:00-10:10
Conversation: Mirror Blossom Urn Collage
Henri Cole, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Larissa Szporluk
Victoria Theatre

12:00-1:10
Festival Poets Reading
Taalam Acey, Gregory Orr, Larissa Szporluk
Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral

1:30-2:40
Conversation: American Poetries
Terrance Hayes, Rachel McKibbens, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk
Victoria Theatre