Reading with L. Lamar Wilson, the Mohr Visiting Poet

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Stanford Humanities Center, we're pleased to announce the next event with the Mohr Visiting Poet: A Reading with L. Lamar Wilson.

This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is encouraged but not required. Register here

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L. Lamar Wilson is the author of Sacrilegion—the 2012 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series selection, a 2013 Independent Publishers Group bronze medalist, and a 2013 Thom Gunn Award finalist—and co-author of Prime: Poetry and Conversation (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014). The Gospel Truth, a stage adaptation of Sacrilegion, thrilled capacity audiences in Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., the latter time with a theater troupe that celebrates the neurospiciness and unique embodiment of Wilson and kindred artists. The Changing Same, a collaboration with Rada Film Group that airs on PBS, won the 2019 Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Best Documentary Award and a special jury prize at the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival. The poem featured in the film, “Resurrection Sunday,” earned a Pushcart Prize nod; another came in 2020 for “Quare.”

Other works have appeared in This Is the Honey (Hatchette, 2024), Bigger than Bravery (Lookout Books, 2022), the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, African American Review, Black Gay Genius (2014), Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (U of Nebraska P, 2019), Callaloo, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (Northwestern UP, 2019), Interim, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (U of Georgia P, 2019), The New York Times, NPR, The 100 Best African American Poems (Sourcebooks, 2010), Obsidian, Oxford American, Poetry, Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), The Root/The Washington Post, south, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere.

Wilson, a Florida A&M alumnus and Affrilachian Poet, has received fellowships from, among others, the Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, Ragdale, and Hurston-Wright foundations. He holds an MFA from Virginia Tech and a doctorate in African American and multiethnic American poetics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wilson teaches creative writing, film and gender studies, and African American poetics at Florida State University and in the Mississippi University for Women’s the low-residency MFA program.

Wilson is this year's Mohr Visiting Poet. Each year, the Creative Writing Program welcomes distinguished writers to teach a Stanford writing seminar to undergraduates. These seminars are made possible with the generous support of Lawrence and Nancy Mohr.