Poetry at Literati: Oliver Baez Bendorf, Suzi F. Garcia, & David Hornibrook

Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 7:00pm

We welcome three incredible poets--Oliver Baez Bendorf, Suzi F. Garcia, & David Hornibrook--as part of our ongoing Poetry at Literati Series. A book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public. 

Oliver Baez Bendorf’s debut full-length collection, The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State U.) was selected by Mark Doty for the Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize. His second book, Advantages of Being Evergreen, won CSU Poetry Center’s Open Book Poetry Competition and will be published September 10, 2019. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, BOMB, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. He has been a featured reader at New Orleans Poetry Festival, The White House, Smith College, and Woodland Pattern. A recipient of honors and fellowships from CantoMundo, Lambda Literary, Vermont Studio Center, and University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Creative Writing, he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. https://www.oliverbaezbendorf.com/

Suzi F. Garcia is the author of the chapbook, Dear Dorothy: A Home Grown Fairytale, Skull + Wind Press, 2020. The daughter of a Peruvian immigrant, raised in Arkansas, she has an MFA in Creative Writing with minors in Screen Cultures and Gender Studies. Suzi is an Executive Editor at Noemi Press, where she has worked with authors such as the Blunt Research Group, Jennifer Tamayo, Roberto Tejada, Thirii Myint, and Vanessa Villarreal. Suzi is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondista, and participated in the first-ever Poetry Incubator at the Poetry Foundation. She is teaching a 2019 Telluride Association Summer Program seminar. Her writing has been featured or is forthcoming from the Offing, Vinyl, Fence Magazine, and more. She has presented at PCA/ACA, AWP, and Console-ing Passions, among other national conferences. 

David Hornibrook is the author of Night Manual (Wayne State University Press), winner of the 2019 Moveen Prize in Poetry granted by The Lynch & Sons Fund for the Arts. David holds an MFA in creative writing from the Helen Zell Writer's Program at the University of Michigan where he was awarded a Civitas fellowship as well as a 2014 Thesis Prize and the Michael R. Gutterman Award for a poem exemplifying "the new, the unusual, and the radical." He is also the recipient of a 2014 Pushcart Prize. David resides in a suburb of Detroit with his wife and four children.

 

Event address: 
124 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Books: 
Night Manual (Made in Michigan Writers) By David Hornibrook Cover Image
$17.99
Email info@literatibookstore.com or call for price
ISBN: 9780814346624
Published: Wayne State University Press - May 6th, 2019