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DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next ev
 ent with the Mohr Visiting Poet: A Reading with D. A. Powell.\n\nThis event
  is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is enc
 ouraged but not required\; register here.\n\n____\n\nD. A Powell is the aut
 hor of five collections\, including Useless Landscape\, or a Guide for Boys
 \, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His hon
 ors include two Northern California Book Awards\, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry
  Prize\, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America\, an
 d the John Updike Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & L
 etters\, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts an
 d the Guggenheim Foundation.\n\nCritic Stephanie Burt\, writing in the New 
 York Times\, said of D. A. Powell "No accessible poet of his generation is 
 half as original\, and no poet as original is this accessible."\n\nA former
  Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University\, Powell has taug
 ht at Stanford\, Columbia\, University of Texas at Austin\, University of I
 owa's Iowa Writers' Workshop\, and Davidson College. He is a Professor at U
 niversity of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco.\n\nPowell's most rec
 ent book is Repast: Tea\, Lunch & Cocktails\, a reissue of his first three 
 collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt. A chapbook\, At
 last T\, was published by Rescue Press in Spring of 2020 and Low Hanging Fr
 uit\, another chapbook\, was printed by Foundlings Press in 2022. Forthcomi
 ng is Tricks\, from Cutbank in 2026.\n\n____\n\nPowell is this year's Mohr 
 Visiting Poet. Each year\, the Creative Writing Program welcomes distinguis
 hed poets to host events and teach a Stanford writing seminar to undergradu
 ates. These events and seminars are made possible with the generous support
  of Lawrence and Nancy Mohr.
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LOCATION:Faculty Club\, Cedar Room
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SUMMARY:Reading with D. A. Powell\, the Mohr Visiting Poet
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