The Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute welcomes critically acclaimed poet, torrin a. greathouse, for a virtual poetry reading on Thursday, March 25, from 7 to 8 p.m. ET. greathouse, transgender and cripple-punk, is a recipient of the prestigious National Endowment of the Arts fellowship.
The poetry reading will be followed by discussion with participants. The event is free and open to the public, and will include American Sign Language interpretation, live captioning and image descriptions. Registration is required.
An M.F.A. candidate at the University of Minnesota, greathouse’s debut collection is “Wound from the Mouth of a Wound,” winning the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. Their work has appeared in Poetry magazine, The New York Times, the Kenyon Review, Foglifter and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series.
