450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 460, Stanford, CA 94305
Terrace Room (Room 426)
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event with the Mohr Visiting Poet: A Colloquium with Robin Coste Lewis.
This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Boxed lunches to follow. Registration is encouraged but not required; RSVP form to follow.
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Robin Coste Lewis won the National Book Award for Voyage of the Sable Venus, her first collection of poetry. The book was also a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and it was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New York Times. Literary Hub named it one of the best books of the last twenty years. Her second book, To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness, was the winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and the NAACP Image Award for Oustanding Literary Work in Poetry. She is also the coauthor, with Kevin Young, of Robert Rauschenberg: Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno. The former poet laureate of Los Angeles, Lewis holds a PhD in poetry and visual studies from the University of Southern California, an MFA in poetry from New York University, an MTS in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University, and a BA in post-colonial literature and creative writing from Hampshire College. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Transition, and The Massachusetts Review. She is currently a professor of poetry and poetics at USC.
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Lewis is this year's Mohr Visiting Poet. Each year, the Creative Writing Program welcomes distinguished poets to host events and teach a Stanford writing seminar to undergraduates. These events and seminars are made possible with the generous support of Lawrence and Nancy Mohr.
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If you have any questions, please contact ethics-center [at] stanford.edu (ethics-center[at]stanford[dot]edu)If you require disability-related accommodation, please contact disability.access [at] stanford.edu (disability[dot]access[at]stanford[dot]edu) as soon as possible or at least 7 business days in advance of the event.