Description

Kaveh Akbar, winner of the 2018 Levis Reading Prize for Calling a Wolf a Wolf, reads from his book and then participates in a Q&A session with the audience. A book sale, signing and reception follow the reading.

The event is free and open to all, but please register. Parking is available for a fee in the West Broad Street, West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. For special accommodations, or to register offline, please contact the VCU Libraries Events Office at (804) 828-0593.

About the Author

Kaveh Akbar currently is a visiting assistant professor at Purdue University and teaches at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va, and Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, Nc. He is the founding editor of Divedapper, an online collection of interviews with major voices in contemporary poetry. He is the recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize and the 2016 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Sponsors

The Levis Reading Prize is presented on behalf of VCU's M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program. Sponsors include the VCU Department of English, VCU Libraries, Barnes & Noble @ VCU and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, with additional funding provided by the family of Larry Levis.

Image: Kaveh Akbar photo and Calling a Wolf a Wolf book cover, courtesy of Kaveh Akbar