As part of the Georgia Poetry Circuit series, prize-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil will read her work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (March 29) in the Berry College Chapel.
Nezhukumatathil’s honors include a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Angoff Award, the Boatwright Prize, the Richard Hugo Prize and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony.
The poetry reading is free and open to the public.
Nezhukumatathil received her B.A. and M.F.A. from Ohio State University. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Mississippi and in 2016-17 she was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program.
She has authored a collection of work including “Miracle Fruit,” “At the Drive-In Volcano,” “Lucky Fish” and “Oceanic.”
Her poems and essays have appeared in New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States, American Poetry Review, FIELD, Prairie Schooner, New England Review and Tin House. Nezhukumatathil also serves as poetry editor for Orion magazine.
For more info about the series go to WWW.BERRY.EDU/GPC/
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