Feb 25th 2020

Poetry off the Shelf: Christian Campbell

@ Poetry Foundation

61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654

Opening Tuesday, February 25th, at 7PM

Experience the work of Christian Campbell, the youngest person to deliver the annual Derek Walcott Lecture for Nobel Laureate Week in St. Lucia. Campbell is the author of the widely acclaimed poetry collection Running the Dusk, winner of a Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and a finalist for the Forward Prize for the Best First Collection and the Cave Canem Prize. Running the Dusk was translated into Spanish by Aida Bahr and published in Cuba as Correr el Crepúsculo. Campbell has received awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Arvon Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others.

Presented in partnership with the Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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