A Colloquium with A. Van Jordan, the Mohr Visiting Poet

Date
Thu October 21st 2021, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Event Sponsor
Creative Writing Program
Location
Terrace Room (4th floor Margaret Jacks Hall)
A. Van Jordan Colloquium, part of the Lane Lecture Series

Photo by Anthony Alvarez.

A. Van Jordan

Part of the Lane Lecture Series. Registration and Stanford ID required. Link to come. Masks will be required.

A. Van Jordan is the author of four collections: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, (2005), which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics, (2007); and The Cineaste, (2013), W.W. Norton & Co. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007), a United States Artists Fellowship (2009)and a Lannan Literary Award in Poetry (2015). He has taught at a number of institutions including, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, The University of Texas at Austin, where he was tenured as an Associate Professor, Rutgers University-Newark where he served as the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor, and at the University of Michigan, where he currently serves as the Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of English Language & Literature, as Director of the Helen Zell Writers MFA Program. His classes focus not only on Creative Writing but also on the ways in which engaging with film and using historical research can influence the writing.

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