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A Reading and Conversation with Writer John Keene

Published: January 10, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa

When: January 15, 2025
Where: The Center for Fiction

Address: 15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States

Phone: +1 212-755-6710

Web: https://centerforfiction.org/

Join Adelphi University’s MFA Program for a reading, conversation, and book signing with the award-winning writer, John Keene.

Keene is the author of Annotations (1995) and Counternarratives (2015), both published by New Directions. Counternarratives received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication, Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021), received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle, and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is a Distinguished Professor and serves as department chair at Rutgers University-Newark.

Time: 6:00-7:00 pm EST

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