Poet Matthew Olzmann, author of “Mezzanines” (Alice James Books, 2013), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, is the next guest in the Raymond Carver Reading Series, on Wednesday, Nov. 9. He will take part in a Q&A session at 3:45 p.m. and do a reading at 5:30 p.m., both in Gifford Auditorium.
Matthew Olzmann
He is a guest of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Olzmann’s second book, “Contradictions in the Design,” is scheduled for publication this month by Alice James Books. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Kenyon Review, New England Review, Necessary Fiction, Brevity and Southern Review.
He is co-editor of The Collagist, and he has received scholarships and fellowships from Kundiman, the Kresge Arts Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Olzmann teaches at Warren Wilson College and lives in North Carolina with his wife, the poet Vievee Francis.
