Reading: Tyehimba Jess

Reading: Tyehimba Jess
Wednesday, Apr 24 2019, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Tishman Lecture Hall
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Poetry at Bennington—Spring 2019
Wednesday, Apr 24 2019 7:00 PM Wednesday, Apr 24 2019 8:00 PM America/New_York Reading: Tyehimba Jess OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Poetry reading and book signing with Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess. Tishman Lecture Hall Bennington College

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly, a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series, and Olio, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Jess is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Whiting fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award, and a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team. He is Professor of English at College of Staten Island.