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Michael Leong and Tomás Q. Morín at Kenyon College
March 1, 2023 @ 5:00 pm EST
Reading by Michael Leong & Tomás Q. Morín
Co-sponsored by the Kenyon College English Department and the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College
5:00 p.m. Cheever Room, Finn House
All events sponsored in whole or in part by the Kenyon Review, the Kenyon College English Department, GLCA New Writers Award, Ohio Arts Council, and the KR Associates Program.
Tomás Q. Morín is the author most recently of the poetry collection Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways. He is co-editor, with Mari L’Esperance, of Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine and is translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda, as well as the libretto Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Poetry, Slate, and Boston Review. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Michael Leong‘s most recent books are Words on Edge (Black Square Editions, 2018), Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2020), and Sky-Quake: Tremor of Heaven (co•im•press, 2020) a co-translation, with Ignacio Infante, of Vicente Huidobro’s operatic long poem. He is Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College.
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