Date/Time
Date(s) - October 17, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom
Categories
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents Brent Ameneyro and Jennifer Soong
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 17, 2024
Brent Ameneyro is the author of A Face Out of Clay (Mountain/West Poetry Series) and the chapbook Puebla (Ghost City Press, 2023). His poetry has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He earned his MFA from San Diego State University, where he was awarded the 2021 SRS Research Award for Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice. A 2022–23 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, he currently serves as the poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review.
Jennifer Soong is the author of several works of poetry, including My Earliest Person (forthcoming with The Last Books), Comeback Death (Krupskaya, 2024), and Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (Black Sun Lit, 2022). Her critical monograph Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Her essays have appeared or are due to appear in Critical Inquiry, Textual Practice, Modernism/modernity, Post45, and Chicago Review. Originally from New Jersey, she lives and works as an assistant professor in Denver.
The CSU Creative Writing Reading Series is made possible by the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, the CSU Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, CSU Libraries, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series and other generous support. Learn about how you can support the series online here.