POETRY April 13, 2019

301 Columbus Street

EMMA BOLDEN (1 p.m., Molton House) Author of three full-length collections of poetry: House Is An Enigma , medi(t)

ations, and Maleficae. Four chapbooks in print. Recipient of a 2017 Creative Writing Fellow-

ship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A Barthelme Prize and Spoon River Poetry

Review Editor’s Prize winner.

TINA MOZELLE BRAZIEL (2 p.m., The Church; 3 p.m., Loeb Center) Author of Known by Salt and Rooted by Thirst. Recipient of the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poet-

ry. Alabama State Council on the Arts fellow. Artist residency at Hot Springs National Park. Di-

rector of the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop for high-school students at UAB.

SARA PIRKLE HUGES (11 a.m., Loeb Center) Author of The Disappearing Act. Winner of the 2016 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Fellow-

ships from The Anderson Center, I-Park Foundation, and The Hambidge Center for Creative

Arts and Sciences. Assistant Director of Creative Writing at The University of Alabama. Host

of the Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series.

ASHLEY M. JONES (2 p.m., The Church; 3 p.m., Loeb Center) Author of dark // thing and Magic City Gospel. Silver medalist in the 2017 Independent Pub-

lishers Book Awards. Recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Winner of the

Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press. Faculty member at the Ala-

bama School of Fine Arts.

KWOYA MAPLES (1 p.m., Molton House) Author of MEND. Finalist for the AWP Prize. Recipient of a Rockefeller Brothers Foundation

grant. Faculty member at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. Director of a three-dimensional

poetry exhibit mixing verse and original paintings, photography, installations, and film .

KATHERINE D. PERRY (12 p.m, The Church): Author of Long Alabama Summer. Co-founder of the Georgia State University Prison Educa-

tion Project. Faculty member at GSU’s Perimeter College. Yogini as well as poet. Dedicated

to prison education as prison reform.