The University of Connecticut Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that Aetna Writer-in-Residence Eduardo C. Corral will read at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, March 12, in the Dodd Center’s Konover Auditorium on the Storrs Campus.
Corral will read from his first book of poetry, Slow Lightning, which received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2011, making corral the first Latino poet to win the award. His poems can be found in various journals, including Best American Poetry 2012, Jubilat, New England Review, Colorado Review, and The Nation. He has been honored with a “Discovery“/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize for Poetry, and the Whiting Writers’ Award.
An Arizona native and current resident of New York, Corral is a CantoMundo fellow who holds degrees from both Arizona State and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He recently taught at Columbia University, and has previously served as both the Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University.
Yale University Press comments that his writing “Seamlessly braid[s] English and Spanish” to create poetry designed to “hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience.”
The reading, co-sponsored by the UConn Creative Writing Program and the Aetna Chair in Writing, is free and open to the public. The Konover Auditorium is located behind the Homer Babbidge Library in the Dodd Research Center at 405 Babbidge Road. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Sean Forbes at sean.forbes@uconn.edu