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March 01, 2018
UT Presents Encore Reading with Writers Patricia Smith and Brock Clarke on Thursday, March 8
On Thursday, March 8, The University of Tampa will welcome acclaimed writers Patricia Smith and Brock Clarke, who will illuminate urgent social issues by reading from their new books. The reading begins at 6 p.m. in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery and is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the UT MFA in Creative Writing program, where Smith and Clarke are on the faculty, this reading is an encore appearance from two of the program's literary stars. Smith's searing, exhilarating poetry and the absurdist, social satire of Clarke's fiction give their audience the shared experience to begin wider conversations about racial attitudes, self-delusion and the underpinnings of the cultural movement Black Lives Matter.
Smith has been praised by critics as "a testament to the power of words to change lives" and is the author of seven highly acclaimed poetry volumes. Smith writes for those who are caught in the grip of tyranny, with survival the goal and power coming through strength and resistance. Her most recent book, Incendiary Art, won the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry.
Clarke is the author of seven books of fiction, including his national best-selling novel The Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England. His new short story collection, The Price of a Haircut, offers up 11 tales of broken individuals and flawed societal expectations with blistering and heart-wrenching insight.
This reading is an official off-site event of The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference taking place March 7-10 at the Tampa Convention Center, for which UT is a premier sponsor.
For more information, contact Erica Dawson, director of the UT MFA in Creative Writing program and associate professor of English and writing, at (813) 257-6311 or edawson@ut.edu.
Sponsored by the UT MFA in Creative Writing program, where Smith and Clarke are on the faculty, this reading is an encore appearance from two of the program's literary stars. Smith's searing, exhilarating poetry and the absurdist, social satire of Clarke's fiction give their audience the shared experience to begin wider conversations about racial attitudes, self-delusion and the underpinnings of the cultural movement Black Lives Matter.
Smith has been praised by critics as "a testament to the power of words to change lives" and is the author of seven highly acclaimed poetry volumes. Smith writes for those who are caught in the grip of tyranny, with survival the goal and power coming through strength and resistance. Her most recent book, Incendiary Art, won the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry.
Clarke is the author of seven books of fiction, including his national best-selling novel The Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England. His new short story collection, The Price of a Haircut, offers up 11 tales of broken individuals and flawed societal expectations with blistering and heart-wrenching insight.
This reading is an official off-site event of The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference taking place March 7-10 at the Tampa Convention Center, for which UT is a premier sponsor.
For more information, contact Erica Dawson, director of the UT MFA in Creative Writing program and associate professor of English and writing, at (813) 257-6311 or edawson@ut.edu.
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